Planets align in night sky in rare ‘planetary parade’ - Celestial spectacle will not be repeated for another 400 years

“Saturday evening, January 18: Venus and Saturn will appear nearest to each other. As evening twilight ends at 6:15 p.m. EST, Venus will be 30 degrees above the southwestern horizon with Saturn 2.2 degrees to the lower left. Saturn will set first on the western horizon almost 3 hours later at 9:04 p.m.”

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special opportunity