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December is an eventful month in space. This month saw meteor showers in space, then solar eclipses. But what was to happen in space on Monday, December 21, was last seen nearly 400 years ago. The world will witness a very rare scene in the universe. The two planets of the solar system Jupiter and Saturn are paired. On this day the two planets will get so close that if the weather is favorable it can be understood even with the naked eye.
According to the US space agency NASA, that the two planets of the solar system come very close to each other is not a new phenomenon. Jupiter passes its neighboring planet Saturn every 20 years, but it does not usually pass that close. The last such incident took place in 1823. The world famous scientist Galileo Galilei is still alive. The incident occurred 13 years after the invention of the telescope. As such, after 398 years, the world will once again be able to witness such a rare event.
NASA scientists say that today, Monday, Thursday and Saturday they will be only a tenth of a degree closer to each other. This will happen again in 60 years, in 2060.
Scientists also say that these two planets came in a straight line 600 years ago, but the last time they were this close was in 1823.
Professor David Weintrab, a space researcher at Vanderbilt University, said that a person may have the opportunity to see such events only once in their life. Scientists call it the Great Conjunction or Mahasammilan or Mahayugalbandi. NASA has named this cosmic event Christmas Star 2020.
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, takes about 12 years to orbit the Sun once. And since Saturn is farther from the Sun, the circumference of its orbit is much larger than the circumference of Jupiter’s orbit. It takes Saturn about 29 and a half years to orbit the sun once.
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