Stargazers can see a diagonal parade of four planets in the pre-dawn sky throughout November, the BBC reported, citing guidance from Royal Museums Greenwich. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will all be visible to the naked eye in the south-eastern to eastern sky. Particularly notable, the museum said, will be the line-up on Monday, Nov. 16, when Mars and Jupiter will appear exceptionally close together. From Nov. 24, a full moon — the first of a run of four supermoons — will also join the planets in the morning sky.
Mercury will be the hardest to spot. As the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest in the solar system, it sits in solar glare, is visible only in twilight, never in a fully dark sky, and will look dim and close to the horizon. The advice is to try in a wide-open sky with a flat horizon, looking to the south-east. Above Mercury and toward the right is Venus, the brightest object in the night sky after the moon, with the highest albedo of any major planet, meaning it reflects more sunlight and appears brighter. It is also usually the closest major planet to Earth in its orbit, which adds to its brilliance. Mars and Jupiter complete the line, with their closest apparent pairing on the 16th as the week's highlight for early risers.
A planetary "parade" in this sense is a line-of-sight grouping in Earth's sky, not a claim that the four worlds are physically lined up in space in any unusual orbital sense. The Greenwich guidance is about when and where to look with the naked eye, not about a spacecraft or a new discovery. The later addition of a full supermoon from Nov. 24 will brighten the scene and may wash out fainter objects, so the mid-month Mars-Jupiter pairing, before that moon arrives, is the cleaner date for the planetary line.
The verified advice is a skywatcher's calendar for November: four naked-eye planets before dawn, a close Mars-Jupiter pairing on the 16th, and a supermoon joining the morning sky from the 24th. It does not require a telescope, but it does require a clear south-eastern horizon and an early alarm. Royal Museums Greenwich is the source for the close approach of Mars and Jupiter on Nov. 16 and for the reminder that Mercury will stay low, dim and brief; anyone who wants the full four-planet line should treat that date, and a clear south-eastern horizon in twilight, as the practical target.