Look out the window tonight! 5 planets line up in the night sky

Look out the window tonight! Five planets will be visible Tuesday, including Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Uranus.

Venus and Mars will be the easiest to identify. Venus will be the biggest and brightest planet in the sky and will be located west after sunset.

Mars will look bright red and be high in the southwest sky.

Jupiter, the second brightest planet, won’t be as easy to spot. Jupiter was high in the sky earlier this month but has been slowly descending. To view Jupiter, you’ll need to have a clear and obstruction-free view of the western horizon. Mercury will also be close to Jupiter.

Local Astronomer Jay Reynolds said that March and April are the best time of year to easily see Mercury.

Uranus might be the most difficult to identify without a telescope. It will appear faint, looking very similar to a star.

“(Uranus) is too dim and the Sun is too bright in the Western sky to easily be seen. If you have good telescope skills, then you have a crack at seeing it but, the view is going to look poor,” Reynolds said.