Look west after sunset tonight to catch a mini planetary parade.
On June 12, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter will appear together low in the western sky shortly after sunset, forming one of the most accessible planetary alignments of 2026.
All three can be seen with the naked eye. Venus will be the brightest and easiest to spot, glowing strongly in the twilight. Jupiter will also stand out as a bright point nearby, while Mercury will sit much closer to the horizon, making it the hardest to find.
The ideal viewing window is around 30 to 60 minutes after sunset, when the sky is still bright but the planets are visible.
No telescope is needed just a clear, unobstructed view of the western horizon should be enough to see the lineup.
Although they look close together in the sky, the planets are actually extremely far apart in space. Their alignment is only an optical effect caused by all planets orbiting the Sun in roughly the same flat plane.
The display continues beyond tonight. In the days that follow, the arrangement shifts, and around June 16–17, a thin crescent Moon joins the scene, making the sky even more striking.
Mercury also reaches one of its best viewing positions around mid-June, giving a rare chance to spot the usually elusive planet.
If skies are clear, step outside after sunset and look low to the west you’ll see three worlds briefly sharing the evening sky.
🚨 French authorities have confirmed Israeli interference in May's Scottish elections.
Will @YvetteCooperMP follow France's lead and summon the Israeli ambassador? Or will she continue Labour's tradition of letting them away with absolutely anything?
https://t.co/0VdgZEZ2QZ
Rob Kenyon has missed his first meetings as a councillor in Makerfield because he refuses to sign the paperwork to have a DBS check done.
What is he hiding?
Never Vote Reform
.@ClaireHanna: "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"
"Golda Meir was born in Russia. Has the right to live here, in this area of Jerusalem, more than me?"
Yassar Arafat on the brutality & oppression waged by Israel on the people of Palestine. #Israël
C🇮🇱NCER
The same people who were telling us George Floyd was a career criminal are the same people who won’t mention the following facts:
>Stephen Ogilvie was known to his Sudanese attacker Hadi Alodid.
>Stephen had 161 previous convictions including a female stroke victim.
They were actual drug buddies according to their honest neighbours.
🚨 Glenn Greenwald just broke it down…
A sitting US President, who ran on ending wars, is being openly defied by a foreign Prime Minister. Not behind closed doors. In public. Repeatedly.
Trump is a Zionist. His family is tied to Israel. He is owned. But he wants this war over. The midterms are coming. His base is fracturing. His promises, and legacy, are rotting in public.
Trump has repeatedly begged Netanyahu to stop.
Netanyahu didn’t just tell him to STFU.
He went straight to Congress, who AIPAC has bribed with $28M this election cycle alone, and passed Section 224, LEGALLY FUSING the US and Israeli military structures.
Democracy BYPASSED In broad daylight.
This is what @ggreenwald has spent years warning people about.
The most powerful man on earth can’t end a war his own voters want ended, because the lobby doesn’t just own the President.
It owns the building he works in.
"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.
David Lammy’s proposals to restrict the right to jury trial have been examined by the Justice Committee of the House of Commons.
And. Well. Um.
It’s *quite* the report.
I think it’s actually worse than politely scathing.
It’s embarrassing 👇🏼🪡🧵
Dress it up however you like - this racist violence has been deliberately whipped up by far right politicians & their cowardly wannabes in the supposed mainstream.
You are either fighting against the anti-migrant narrative or you are with these thugs.
🚨 WTF?! Top congressman Thomas Massie confirms US fighter jets were launched to save the USS Liberty from the Israeli attack, but Washington inexplicably recalled them.
The Pentagon intentionally abandoned their own men for 17 hours to protect Zionist regime! Total betrayal.
A year and a half later, this former under-secretary for defence in Tony Blair’s government has not been charged.
Meanwhile, he has been hosted by LBC, though.
"It brings me no pleasure to compare what Israel is doing to what the Nazis did, but how can we not? When you have things like ghettos, starvation, concentration camps and planned systematic extermination of people"
Jewish journalist @kthalps
CC: LBC @lewis_goodall@hasanthehun
Israel is not a Jewish state
Jews are not a nationality
Judaism is an ancient religious collective.
Zionism is a nationalist movement created in 1896 by ppl who were pronounced atheists
They wanted to be called Jewish but without actually believing in Judaism
That's Zionism