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Each planet from Mercury to Saturn will visible around the eclipsed Sun on April 8, possibly comet 12P/Pons-Brooks too.


With Earth and the Moon currently on one side of the solar system and the rest of the solar system current on the other side, each of the six naked-eye visible planets will be visible, strung out across the sky during the total solar eclipse on April 8.

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