Jupiter’s Retrograde Motion Has Ended! 🌌🔄 On February 4, 2025, Jupiter finished its retrograde motion and is now moving forward again. It will appear to move “backward” again from November 11, 2025, to March 11, 2026. 🧐 What is retrograde motion? It’s an optical illusion! Planets normally move west to east in the sky (prograde motion), but sometimes they appear to move backward (retrograde motion). 🚗💨 Think of it like this: When you’re in a car and pass a slower vehicle, it briefly looks li

🔁 3 Planets Go Retrograde This July!⁠ ⁠ Heads up, skywatchers! In July 2025, Neptune, Saturn, and Mercury will all go retrograde — a celestial event where planets appear to move backward in the sky!⁠ ⁠ 🌀 What is retrograde motion?⁠ Normally, planets move from west to east across the sky (called prograde motion). But sometimes, due to the way Earth and other planets orbit the Sun, they appear to reverse direction for a while. This is called apparent retrograde motion — it’s just an optical illu

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