Mercury, Venus, Jupter, and Saturn are visible in the predawn sky early this week.
Look low in the east for Mercury, the smallest and dimest of the group, followed by brilliant Venus and bright Jupiter a bit higher and slightly to the south. You can sot Saturn in the west at roughly the same altitude above the horizon as Venus.
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Mars is absent from the lineup, appearing instead in the evening sky, low in the west after sunset. Uranus and Neptune are also above the horizon but require at least a medium to large telescope to observe.
You find see the approximate locations of these ice giants by following an imaginary line these visible planets. Each planet lies within a few degrees of this imaginary line, the ecliptic, which defines the plane of the solar system,.
Uranus is above the constallation Orion, located by finding Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka, the three stars which make up Orion's belt, and Betelgeuse, the massive red supergiant star which has a slightly orange color once the light travels more than 600 light years to Earth.
Hold your outstretch pinky finger just above Saturn in the west. Neptune is above, on the otherside of your finger, less than 2 degrees away.
By next weekend, Mercury will sink out of visibility, but Venus and Jupiter remain visible in the pre-dawn sky through September. The pair will be joined by the Moon mid-month.
The next planetary lineup, or time when nerly all the visible planets are arranged on one side of the Sun will be in late Feburary, but will be much more difficult to see. They will be much closer to the Sun in our sky and lower on the dusk horizon.