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The planets continually move among the stars, causing them to appear in constantly changing

places, in the sky and among the constellations.

Mercury and Venus can never appear in the east at sunset. Since their orbits keep them closer

to the sun than earth's orbit keeps us, there's a limit to how far from the sun they can appear

in our sky.

But each of the so-called "superior" planets ... each one farther from the sun than earth ... can

appear anywhere in our sky at some point during its orbit.

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