CHARLOTTE — A rare planetary alignment is going to happen on Friday night. In this alignment, all seven plants will appear in a line across the sky.
The planets will be visible to the naked eye and include Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars.
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While planetary alignments aren’t uncommon, it is rare to have all seven planets at once.
We typically only get three or four at a time. In fact, the next time this will happen isn’t until 2040.
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