The first two weeks of March provide a great opportunity to sight four bright naked-eye planets in the early evening sky.
Low toward the west blazes Venus, which serves as a convenient celestial landmark to make a sighting of Mercury, which will be hovering not far from it. Mercury puts on its best evening apparition of 2025 for Northern Hemisphere observers during these two weeks. Venus will plummet dramatically toward its inferior conjunction on March 22, when it passes 8.4 degrees north of the sun. For a few days around this date, we can try spotting Venus in bright twilight both immediately before sunrise and right after sunset. It rapidly zooms into the morning sky, reaching an angular distance of 15 degrees from the sun by month's end.
