Tonight, just after sunset, skywatchers across B.C. will be in for an eye-popping show.
Five planets — Mars, Uranus, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter — will be lined up in an arc and visible on the western horizon from almost anywhere on Earth.
“I like to call it, essentially, a cosmic coincidence,” said Andrew Ferreira, a public relations representative with the Vancouver branch of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
“It’s purely just a coincidence that, you know, five planets happened to line up more or less from our perspective.”
In an interview with CBC, Ferreira said the best time to view the phenomenon will be just
