2025 promises several celestial spectacles, including a six-planet parade, two lunar eclipses, and a partial solar eclipse.
A supermoon rises behind an observation deck in New York City as seen from Hoboken, N.J., on Nov. 15, 2024.The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don’t expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that mesmerized North America last spring. While the world will have to wait until 2026 for the next total solar eclipse, the cosmos promises plenty of other wow moments in 2025. It’s kicking off the year with a six- planet parade in January that will be visible for weeks.
Little Mercury will join the crowd for a seven-planet lineup in February. Five planets already are scattered across the sky – all but Mars and Mercury – though binoculars or telescopes are needed to spot some of them just after sunset. “People should go out and see them sometime during the next many weeks. I certainly will,” said the Planetary Society’s chief scientist Bruce Betts.The moon will vanish for more than an hour over North and South America on March 14, followed two weeks later by a partial solar eclipse visible from Maine, eastern Canada, Greenland, Europe, Siberia and northwestern Africa. The cosmic double-header will repeat in September with an even longer total lunar eclipse over Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, and a partial solar eclipse two weeks later near the bottom of the world.The full moon will look particularly big and bright those three months as it orbits closer to Earth than usual. November’s supermoon will come closest, passing within 221,817 miles (356,980 kilometres). Last year featured four supermoons, wrapping up in November.Six of our seven neighbouring planets will line up in the sky to form a long arc around mid-January. All but Neptune and Uranus should be visible with the naked eye just after sunset, weather permitting. The parade will continue for weeks, with some of the planets occasionally snuggling up. Mercury will make a cameo appearance by the end of February. The planets will gradually exit, one by one, through sprin
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