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And I'm Ira Flato.

January is a great month for looking up.

We'll talk to astronomer Dean Regis about the best astronomical events to look out for with or without a telescope.

We've got Venus. We got Saturn. We got Neptune. Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars all visible.

I'm asking you to look up and know not at the ceiling, but at the night sky, like I did this week, where I saw an awesome display of planets.

If you like looking at the night sky, this is a great month to do it.

And here to tell us what we can see is a guy who's always, well, he always has his head in the sky.

Dean Regis, astronomer and host of the podcast, looking up with Dean Regis.

Welcome back, Dean.

Oh, happy to be here.

Let's talk about this being a great month.

The flashest event people are really talking about the so-called planet parade.

Fill us in.

Oh, yeah, this is some good marketing. Planet

parade sounds really great. We're going to have lots of planets up in the sky. We've got Venus.

We got Saturn. We got Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars all visible. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?

But a little bit bringing people down to Earth, six planets sounds good, but four are the ones you

can see with the naked eye. But Venus and Saturn are going to be right next to each other in the evening sky right after

dark. So Venus incredibly bright, looks suspiciously bright like a plane or UFO, and Saturn will be faint,

but next to it. And then on the other side of the sky, kind of bordered by the south, southeast is

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