{"id":1707,"date":"2016-01-20T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2016-01-20T13:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T20:31:29","slug":"for-the-first-time-in-a-decade-you-can-see-5-planets-aligned-without-a-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"For the first time in a decade, you can see 5 planets aligned without a telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/for-the-first-time-in-a-decade-you-can-see-5-planets-aligned-without-a-telescope\/ar-BBorD3B?li=BBnb7Kz\">For the first time in a decade, you can see 5 planets aligned without a telescope<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For the first time in more than a decade, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the five planets bright enough to be seen with an unaided eye \u00e2\u20ac\u201d will all be visible at once in the sky.  <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to wake up early to catch it. Starting January 20, it will be possible to see all five planets in a row, about 45 minutes before sunrise, Sky and Telescope <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/astronomy-news\/observing-news\/get-up-early-see-five-planets-at-once-01182015\/\">reports<\/a>. The planets should be visible in this arrangement <a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/science-wire\/when-will-all-five-visible-planets-appear-simultaneously\">until<\/a> February 20. <\/p>\n<p>(Sky and Telescope notes it might get harder to see Mercury after the first week of February, because of its low position near the horizon).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/for-the-first-time-in-a-decade-you-can-see-5-planets-aligned-without-a-telescope\/ar-BBorD3B?li=BBnb7Kz\">For the first time in a decade, you can see 5 planets aligned without a telescope<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in a decade, you can see 5 planets aligned without a telescope For the first time in more than a decade, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the five planets bright enough to be seen with an unaided eye \u00e2\u20ac\u201d will all be visible at once in the sky. You&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For the first time in a decade, you can see 5 planets aligned without a telescope<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}