Seven planets will line up for a planetary parade this month-end

London: A special celestial event will take place on the last day of February with seven planets aligning to showcase a ‘planetary parade’, The Guardian reported.

Keep your phones away and turn your eyes on the night sky to savour the rare event.

The planetary bonhomie will occur when several planets appear in alignment on the night sky.

Dr Greg Brown, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, reportedly said that a ‘planetary parade’ happens when multiple planets appear in the sky all at once.

‘How impressive a parade it is will depend on how many planets are in it and how visible they are,’ Greg Brown added.

However not easy to spot, several planets this week are ‘technically visible in the sky at once’, according to the report.

‘Mercury, Neptune and Saturn are all very close to the horizon in the early evening and, particularly in the case of Neptune and Saturn, will struggle to be seen in the twilight,’ Brown reportedly said.

Presence of Uranus, like Neptune is hard to find as it is very faint but a pair of binoculars or telescope could help.

However, Venus, Jupiter and Mars could be seen with your naked eyes.

It is reported citing Nasa that parade of four or five planets visible from Earth takes place every few years.

Brown explained that it is not uncommon for groups of three or four or five planets being visible throughout each year, adding that ‘But the more planets are involved, the more things need to be aligned to be visible at once. This makes full seven-planet parades fairly rare.’

Planets including Venus, Mars and Jupiter are visible to the naked eye this month with faint presence of Saturn and Mercury close to the horizon, though very hard to spot, according to the report.

Using binoculars and telescopes you can see Uranus and Neptune.

Dr Shyam Balaji, a researcher in astroparticle physics and cosmology at King’s College London, said that the celestial event happens due to the planets in the solar system orbiting the sun ‘roughly the same plane, known as the ecliptic plane.’