What amazes me is how the sun can continuously burn for however long it has been there. The burnable energy must be massive.
How can it have such enormous heat and the whole sun not explode in one massive bang.

Thanks JAP. I agree, amazes me also.

Everything amazes me - I have yet to come to understand gravity.   Thanks konane.

Interesting. Kind of a motion thing not an alignment thing reading in on the topic, the next planetary alignment as depicted in the graphic close as possible "alignment within 30 degrees" is in 2854AD. the last one was 561BC.

Thanks Em. If this heralds new beginnings the effect of which would last a long time no wonder they've been trying to steal the election from Trump.

Thanks Jarasan. This gets into astrology somewhat. If interested on the affect of when a planet goes retrograde, read up on Mercury retrograde. Communications of all sorts are affected, etc., by gravitational pull and spin. My understanding of retrograde is that earth's spin is such that the planets we view from earth "appear" to us to have stopped and going backwards in their orbits.

Most enlightening , thanks knoane :_)

Pretty cool, thanks Konane.

Thanks Eddessa. Yes it certainly is. New beginnings.

Thanks Sully. Very cool indeed. :)