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19th January 2016
10:15am GMT

Dr Alan Duffy, research fellow at Swinburne University in Melbourne, said that this reasonably rare alignment is “essentially a quirk” of the universe.
He said: "All the planets sit on a flat plane but have different yearly cycles – so for all five visible planets to happen to line up is “something well worth seeing."
If you don't see it first time, try again, astronomers promise we should all catch a glimpse.
If this doesn't make us stick our phones in our pockets walking back from the train or bus at night, we don't know what will.