Eli5 why aren’t planets after Saturn visible? Glowey?

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If light travels in straight line and isn’t obstructed till it hits something then why are the front stars easily visible but the the last ones aren’t like does sunlight doesn’t reach those little shits? I can’t see youranus neither Neptune and other ones but after a while planets are visible yet again? Like are they out of the solar system and someone else glows then or what?

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You can’t see Neptune and Uranus with the naked eye because they are far away. Uranus is nearly twice as far from the Sun as Saturn, and Neptune is 3 times farther than Saturn. You can see them with a telescope though.

> after a while planets are visible yet again?

No, there are no visible planets past Neptune. If you’re talking about planets outside the solar system (exoplanets), then they aren’t really visible – we can just detect them by seeing their effect on the stars that they orbit.

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