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🪐 November 2025: Mercury & Jupiter Go Retrograde Two planets — Mercury and Jupiter — started their retrograde motion this month! That means five planets are now appearing to move backward in the sky. Here’s the full retrograde lineup for the end of 2025: 🔹 Neptune — July 5 to December 10, 2025 🔹 Saturn — July 14 to November 28, 2025 🔹 Uranus — September 6, 2025 to February 4, 2026 🔹 Mercury — November 9 to November 29, 2025 🔹 Jupiter — November 11, 2025 to March 11, 2026 Retrograde motion
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What does Saturn’s retrograde really look like? Let’s compare the view from Earth and space! 🪐⁠ ⁠ When Saturn appears to move backward in the sky, it’s not actually reversing — it’s an illusion caused by Earth overtaking it in orbit, like passing a slower car 🚗⁠ ⁠ From Earth, Saturn loops backward. From space, it keeps moving forward as usual.⁠ ⁠ 🗓️ The next time Saturn will go retrograde from July 14 to November 28, 2025!⁠ ⁠ Have you seen it before? 👇⁠ ⁠ #Saturn #Retrograde #Astronomy #Star
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