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Planet Mars is at its ‘biggest and brightest’ – Yahoo News Australia
The Red Planet is unmissable in the night sky right now as its orbit aligns with Earth’s.
Get out there and look up!
Mars is at its biggest and brightest right now as the Red Planet lines up with Earth on the same side of the Sun.
Every 26 months, the pair take up this arrangement, moving close together, before then diverging again on their separate orbits around our star.
Tuesday night sees the actual moment of what astronomers call “opposition”.
All three bodies will be in a straight line at 23:20 GMT (00:20 BST).
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