Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn will appear in a row on the evening of 28 February, marking the last time for 15 years that all of the planets will be visible at the same time. Planetary parades of four or five planets happen relatively regularly, though alignments of six or seven are remarkably rare.

And it could be even better, because this particular event is an alignment of seven planets. " Planetary alignment is an astronomical term used to describe the event when several planets gather closely on one side of the sun at the same time,

In a event that won't be seen again until the year 2040, seven planets will align in the sky at the same time on 28 February - with experts noting that the best time to view the celestial phenomena is