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Star gazers were amazed at the planetary alignment yesterday. Image: Cancer Facebook page

LOOK: Pics and videos of the RARE planetary alignment

Did you miss the planetary alignment yesterday? Worry not because we have some pictures and videos of this rare event

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Star gazers were amazed at the planetary alignment yesterday. Image: Cancer Facebook page

Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, and Mars gathered in a small section of the sky during a planetary alignment yesterday, 28 March.

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Rare planetary alignment amazes star gazers

The night sky planets don’t always remain visible as they rise and set throughout the night.

At times, they may not be visible at all when they are in conjunction with the sun.

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Star gazers were delighted to see the planetary alignment. Image: Cancer Facebook page

The alignment of planets is an optical illusion.

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In actuality, the planets are not anywhere close to each other in space.

This alignment happens only from the viewpoint of Earth.

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Star gazers were delighted to see the planetary alignment. Image: Cancer Facebook page

Although Venus and Jupiter may have appeared to be next to each other in the night sky, they are actually 430 million miles apart from each other in reality.

Watch here:

Star gazers were delighted to see the planetary alignment. Video: Lisa Marie Hochong Facebook

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