EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — If you needed a sign from the cosmos, the planets are in fact aligning for you this evening. ValleyCentral spoke to Christian Hernandez, Program Specialist at UTRGV for the Center of Excellence in STEM Education, to learn more about a special phenomenon that is taking place tonight. Hernandez runs the planetarium at UTRGV and says all the planets in our solar system will be visible tonight. Six planets will be visible to the naked eye and eight can be seen if you have a telescope or binoculars. The celestial event is called a planetary parade. The planetary parade is a celestial event that happens fairly often. However, not usually on this scale. It refers to more than four planets orbiting around the sun visible on one side of the sun at night at the same time. Hernandez said this happens once a year to varying degrees. "Last year we had a couple that were only five or six planets," he said. "This time is special because it has all six. It has every planet except for Mercury." Those who choose to look up tonight can seen Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and Mars with the naked eye. Onlookers can also see Neptune and Uranus with a telescope or binoculars. "Those two are harder to see cause they're further away and they're blue so they blend into the night sky," Hernandez said. Wednesday and on Feb. 28 if you go outside after the sun sets and stand facing south then look from the east to the west you will be able to see the band of planets lined up. The event is called a planetary parade because you will see all of them passing by in their orbital path. IMAS is borrowing most of UITRGV's functioning telescopes today to run their own stargazing event called cosmos of fun. The next event is being held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Jan. 23rd at the IMAS in McAllen.