Dancing planets - Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn will all be visible aligning in the sky for the first time since 947AD.

 Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn will all be visible aligning in the sky for the first time since 947AD.

From Sunday through Wednesday mornings, the waning Moon passes under Saturn, Mars, and the Venus-Jupiter pair low in the southeast, as shown below. 

For four mornings the Moon walks below the line of four early-dawn planets. The planets change position a bit from one morning to the next. Venus and Jupiter are 6° apart on the 24th, shrinking to 3° on the 27th (as they are drawn here). Venus and Jupiter will be just ½° from each other on the mornings of April 30th and May 1st, as they pass through a striking conjunction.

Planets line up in sky during once in a thousand year event

Rare phenomenon: Four planets will line up in the sky this month

A rare phenomenon that attracts space enthusiasts who are keen to witness various celestial events.

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In the distant past, Europeans saw alignments of the planets as signs of things to come, from famines, earthquakes, and floods, to the birth of Christ and the ultimate collapse of civilization, says Laura Ackerman Smoller, an expert in medieval and Renaissance Europe. (Getty Images)

The rendezvous of the Jupiter and Saturn was often grafted onto apocalyptic prophecies

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