4 Planets Will Align in the Sky Every Night of January—Here's How to See the Conjunction

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From the northern lights ringing in the New Year to a spectacular meteor shower, January is shaping up to be an exciting month for stargazers. In fact, every night this month there is something to admire in the night sky, as a four-planet conjunction of Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars will be visible throughout January.

A few hours after the sky darkens, Venus and Saturn will become visible in the southwest with Jupiter above them and Mars to the east. If you have a telescope, you'll be able to spot two additional planets that aren't visible to the naked eye: Uranus and Neptune, according to NASA.

The line that these planets are on is called the ecliptic, which represents the plane of the solar system in which the planets orbit around the sun. "This is, incidentally, why we sometimes observe planets appearing to approach closely to each other in the sky, as we view them along a line while they careen around the cosmic racetrack," NASA explains.