The Six-Planet Alignment Some Say Governments Are Afraid to Explain On February 28, the night sky will stage a spectacle astronomers are calmly calling a “planetary alignment.” Six planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will appear in a long arc across the heavens. Official explanations say it is a routine consequence of orbital mechanics. Nothing mysterious. Nothing historic. Just geometry. But that explanation is exactly what has started to make some observers uneasy. Because if this event is so ordinary, why has interest in it quietly surged across the internet? Why are amateur astronomers, satellite trackers, and fringe researchers suddenly pointing telescopes toward the same narrow window of sky? And why do some claim this alignment resembles patterns recorded before major disruptions in ancient records? According to the standard model, planets orbit the Sun in roughly the same flat disk. Occasionally, from Earth’s perspective, several appear in the sa...
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