Winter Solstice 2020 ~ ‘Great’ Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn

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 Jupiter & Saturn - 21 December 2020 

photo by Eleonore Hockabout

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The planets orbit the Sun in approximately the same plane. Conjunctions occur when two or more of them line up across our line of sight. Not to scale. 

 

 

JPL Horizons with NASA image     

 

      

Viewfinder links:      

       

Eleonore Hockabout         

Memories of Solstice       

Styrous®             

       

Net links:    

       

The Atlantic ~ Jupiter and Saturn Are Just Showing Off         

BBC News ~ Winter solstice: Jupiter and Saturn 'merge' in rare event 

CBS News ~ Jupiter and Saturn will come together        

CNN ~ Watch for the 'Christmas Star'            

Forbes ~ Once-In-10-Lifetimes ‘Christmas Star’ Planets         

NASA ~ The ‘Great’ Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn      

PBS News ~ Jupiter, Saturn will appear to merge in night sky      

Sky & Telescope ~ Jupiter and Saturn in the Great Conjunction of 2020   

       

       

      

      

       

       

      

       

       

      

Styrous® ~ Solstice, Monday, December 21, 2020

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