For the first time, Earth and seven planets appear in the same image.

This photo was taken by 'star hunter' Josh Dury on February 22nd.

Photo: Instagram/Josh Dury

The photograph by 27-year-old British astronomical photographer Josh Dury shows Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, and Mercury aligned in a rare planetary parade for the first time since 1982.

While NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft captured an entire planet in the solar system in a single image from a space perspective, cameras on Earth have only recently become sophisticated enough to take such pictures from the ground.

This means that Mr. Dury's photograph is most likely the first to capture all seven planets aligned in a straight line.

"Seven (or perhaps eight) is an achievement that, to my knowledge, has never been accomplished before," Live Science quoted the British photographer as saying in an email on February 28. If you include the ground representing Earth in the photo, it could be said that all eight planets of the solar system appeared in one image.

Photographer Dury captured this historic image just after sunset on February 22nd from The Mendip hill in Somerset, England.

Astronomers define a planetary alignment as the phenomenon where more than two planets appear on one side of the sun. The number of planets in an alignment can range from three to eight, and the occurrence of five planets is more frequent than six.

However, the rarest event is when seven planets align. The next time this phenomenon occurs is in 2040.

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