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Brian Lairer on WNYC and for our last little bit today.

You've heard of getting your ducks in a row, which evidently comes from the game of pool and not the birds.

But for the next couple of nights, we have our planets all in a row.

All seven planets, sorry Pluto, appear in a line in the sky and you can spot, if the

clouds break, five of them without a telescope. To explain what's going on, how and when to look up,

and just how rare this is, we're joined once again by Jackie Faradie, an astrophysicist and educator

at the American Museum of Natural History.

And listeners will invite you in, too.

Any astronomers, amateur or professional, who are excited for this parade of planets or have already checked it out, call or text us your solar system glee, or if you have

suggestions for where to view the planetary parade, 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-692, call or text,

I guess if any astrologers want to weigh in on this, it has significance to you, you can too.

But welcome back to the show, astrophysicist Jackie Faradie. We won't ask your

sun sign. Yeah, we're going to skip over that part. Happy to explain lots about it, but we're going to

stick to maybe planets today. Yeah. And how unusual is this planet parade, as I think it's being

called? Yeah, the planet parade is a really nice way of saying it.

It's actually not that rare or uncommon to have this happen.

And it really depends on what you're asking.

So we should talk about what the phenomenon is.

The planets all go around the sun like racers on a racetrack. So if you've ever been to a track and tried to go

running, I go to riverbank all the time, you're going around and around and around. Other people

might be going and some of them are going to be behind you. Some of them are going to be the left of you.

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