Good morning and thank you! Yes, this is what I have been watching, observing or checking out! Its a Celestial event taking place and visible in our night sky on a clear night and is called the Planetary Alignment!
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Currently in our Solar System, what's known as a Planetary Alignment is taking place. For your reference and maybe interest, below I've attached a copy of some details.
What’s up in the night sky: January 2025
Welcome to our night sky monthly feature where we focus on easy and fun things to see in the night sky, mostly with just your eyes. This month is a spectacular time to check out planets: there is a planet parade across the evening sky including Mars at opposition looking its brightest for a couple of years, as well as the standardly super-bright Venus and Jupiter. Also, this month we’ll see a planetary alignment — an often confusing, sometimes misleading, term that we’ll explain.
All month: In the evening, from west to east along an approximate line crossing the sky, see super bright Venus, yellowish Saturn, very bright Jupiter, and reddish, very bright Mars! If you’ve got binoculars you might see Uranus as well, and a telescope could get you Neptune. Some individual planet notes follow.
All month: Venus is stunning in the evening west. The brightest natural object in the night sky except the Moon, Venus is particularly easy to see this month as it is far above the horizon in the early evening. It will drop lower as the months pass.
All month: Yellowish Saturn is visible in the eastern sky in the evening.
All month: Reddish Mars rises in the east in the mid-evening. It is now almost as bright as Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
All month: Very bright Jupiter is in the evening east above Mars.
Early January: Mercury is very low in the east in the pre-dawn.
Jan. 1: New Moon
Jan. 3: The Moon is near Venus in the sky.
Jan. 3: The peak of the
Quadrantids meteor shower. This shower tends to be very good (potentially tens of meteors per hour from a dark site) near the peak but is very concentrated so the shower weakens significantly as you get further from the peak. Also, it is much weaker in the Southern Hemisphere. The near-crescent Moon will not interfere much with viewing.
Jan. 4: Earth’s perihelion – Earth is at its closest to the Sun in its orbit.
Jan. 4: The Moon is very near Saturn.
Jan. 10: The Moon is in the same part of the sky as Jupiter.
Jan. 12: Mars is closest to the Earth and therefore appears the brightest it will get this year.
Jan. 13: Full Moon
Jan. 13: Mars is very near the Moon.
Jan. 13, 2025 night sky snapshot In the evening east, Mars is very bright and very near the Moon. In fact, from some locations, the Moon passes in front of (occults) Mars for a few minutes.
Jan. 16: Mars is at opposition – the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. It will rise around sunset and set around sunrise. If both planets’ orbits were exactly circular, this also would be the closest point in the orbits for this time around. Because the orbits are actually elliptical, the closest point (Jan. 12 this year), is a few days from opposition.
Jan. 18: Venus is relatively close in the sky to the much dimmer Saturn. They will grow farther apart after this date.
Jan. 18, 2025 night sky snapshot In the evening west, super bright Venus is near the much dimmer, yellowish Saturn. (Pasadena, California. Latitude: about 34 degrees north.)
Image: Bruce Betts/The Planetary Society using Stellarium
Jan. 21, 2025: We get what is often referred to as a planetary alignment, which in this case represents when six planets (four visible with just your eyes), can be seen in the sky at once.. Viewing them is just as good many days before and after, so don’t worry if you don’t look on this night. For more on “planetary alignment,” see below.
Jan. 21, 2025 night sky snapshot Six planets in an approximate line across the evening sky. Three are very bright, (Venus, Jupiter, Mars), and four are easily visible with just your eyes (add Saturn).
The next Planetary Alignment is on January 21, 2025, when six planets will be visible in the night sky: Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, and Saturn. Four of these planets will be visible to the naked eye, but you'll need a telescope or high-powered binoculars to see Neptune and Uranus.
Planetary alignments are celestial events that are fun to watch because you can see multiple planets in the sky at once. However, the planets aren't always perfectly aligned in a line because they aren't exactly in the same plane.
You can use the free Sky Tonight app to help you find the planets.
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I know it’s a bit dark and full of shocking twists, but we just couldn’t stop watching! The power struggles, the mind games, and, of course, the shocking moments had us both on the edge of our seats. Seeing my partner’s reactions to every episode has been hilarious! 
