Beginning today and lasting for a few weeks, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars will be visible in the early morning sky, aligned roughly along the ecliptic — or the path the sun travels throughout the day. Uranus and Neptune, much fainter but there all the same, should be visible through binoculars. What gives the end-of-the-worlders shivers is that just such a configuration is supposed to occur on Dec. 21, 2012, and contribute in some unspecified way to the demolition of the planet. But what makes that especially nonsensical — apart from the fact that it’s, you know, nonsense — is that astronomers say no remotely similar alignment will occur next year……..
New Rogue Planet Around the Sun?
That’s just close enough to the truth to be dangerous, something that John Matese, co-author of the Icarus paper, admits — sort of. “What we’re really saying,” he explains, “is that there’s suggestive evidence there might be something out there.” And if a new planet exists — something Matese is emphatically not claiming at this point — then the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite should already have an image of it stored somewhere in its enormous database.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2049641,00.html#ixzz1ML2SWZpT
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2070503,00.html#ixzz1ML1W6f5x
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