Everybody loves a parade.
Most people who live in chillier climes aren’t exactly rejoicing when February rolls around — but this year, watchers of the night sky have been positively ecstatic over a rare celestial event taking place.
In early 2025, those gazing upward have been able to view what’s known as a “planetary parade” — where Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune appear to align.
Now, one determined photographer has reportedly managed to capture the phenomena — from a field near his home in England.
And, experts say, the photo could be the first to crowd all eight planets, including Earth, into one frame.
Josh Dury, 27, snapped the spectacle from the Mendips Hills, near the city of Bristol, on Feb 22.
“I managed to capture a panorama image of the seven planets, AKA – the planetary parade,” Dury told SWNS.
“It is made of nine images, revealing Saturn, Mercury and Neptune.
“However, they were very tricky to spot. I used multiple image analysis and astronomy apps to confirm their location,” he said.
“As this was taken with a wide-angle lens, the nine images stitched to a panorama and a HDR blend of one of the frames to reveal Saturn, Neptune and Mercury.
“These three planets not easy to see at all.”
The alignment has happened before — but well before cameras had the ability to capture them all at once.
As reported by SWNS, one expert surmised that the reason this recent achievement eluded shutterbugs in the past was that until 2006, well after the last lineup, Pluto would have been considered a planet.
The far-flung outcast would have been impossible to squeeze into the group photo, they said.
