Our solar system is about to put on a show

Keep your eyes on the sky. Six planets in our solar system are coming into alignment and will be visible from Earth.

AccuWeather says Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will be visible every evening through the first half of February, appearing in a line across the sky.

This is happening, AccuWeather says, because all six planets will be on the same side of the sun from Earth's perspective. During the first nights of February, the crescent moon should also line up with the planets.

Although it can be hard to see them in winter, four planets — Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn — can be spotted with the naked eye. To see Neptune and Uranus, you will need a telescope.

"Venus, Saturn and Neptune will be bunched together low in the southwestern sky, while Mars, Jupiter and Uranus will glow higher in the southern sky," Accuweather notes.

Planets always appear along a line, so the alignment alone isn't rare, according to NASA's Preston Dyches. "What’s less common is seeing four or five bright planets at once, which doesn’t happen every year," he writes.

How to view the planets

Venus, Saturn and Neptune will be grouped low in the southwestern sky, while Mars, Jupiter and Uranus are expected to be higher in the southern sky.

After the sun goes down on Monday, Feb. 3, the moon will hang between Venus and Uranus in the sky. In the following nights, it will go past Jupiter and Mars, AccuWeather said.