{"id":3801,"date":"2025-02-22T17:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3801"},"modified":"2025-02-24T16:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:03:46","slug":"planetary-alignment-101-this-weeks-rare-planet-parade-guided-stargazing","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/event\/planetary-alignment-101-this-weeks-rare-planet-parade-guided-stargazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Alignment 101: This week&#8217;s rare &#8216;planet parade&#8217; + Guided Stargazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2025\/02\/Planetary-Alignment-101.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2025\/02\/Planetary-Alignment-101.png 940w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2025\/02\/Planetary-Alignment-101-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2025\/02\/Planetary-Alignment-101-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2025\/02\/Planetary-Alignment-101-143x120.png 143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A parade of planets will appear in our early evening sky on Friday February 28. Learn how to view the rare alignment of 7 of our solar system planets in our *FREE* live show &#8216;Planetary Alignment 101&#8217; on Thursday February 27 at 6:30PM and 7:30PM. We&#8217;ll discuss how planets align, how you can view it yourself on the following night, and do some guided naked-eye stargazing outside (as long as it isn&#8217;t cloudy!).<\/p>\n<p>How rare is this 7 planet (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter,\u00a0 Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) alignment?\u00a0 We&#8217;ll have to wait about 15 years for the next one. The\u00a0 weather should be good for our location February 27 and February 28, so don&#8217;t miss out on this opportunity!<\/p>\n<p>Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors will open 15 minutes before showtime. The planetarium portion of the night will last ~30 minutes, followed by guided naked-eye stargazing. Stargazing will take place first in the parking lot next to the planetarium. Then we will walk to the less light-polluted quad in front of the student union to find more constellations and stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parade of planets will appear in our early evening sky on Friday February 28. Learn how to view the rare alignment of 7 of our solar system planets in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-3801","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3801\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}