Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Mars and the Moon aligned in an arc across the evening sky.
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"The planets aren't aligned right now, they are all spread out across the Solar System but just from our perspective, every once in a while they get close enough to each other in the sky that we're able to see quite a few at once," he said.Ynys Enlli , off the Llŷn Peninsula, has becomeSpeaking from Anglesey, Dani Robertson, the dark skies officer for North Wales, said the evening had been a visual treat despite a light cloudy haze.
"If it were clearer, I could see all of it, the only one you wouldn't be able to see is Uranus, you'd need a telescope." He said: "Over the course of the night the distance between these objects shifts as the moon goes around us, we move a little further around the sun, and the planets continue their journeys around the sun.
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