The planets line up: May 3 2002

Copyright: ESA 2002. Illustration by Medialab
Also notable are the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters - the cluster of stars below Mercury.
This image was created for a viewer located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, looking at the sky at 20:00 UT May 3 2002. Note that the size of the planets is not to scale.
Last Update: 1 September 2019