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Fans of astronomy and astronomical phenomena will be on a date, soon after, with one of the most beautiful and rare astronomical phenomena, which has been called the Great Coupling, a rare conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn.
Dr. Gad El-Qady, director of the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research, revealed that the conjunction of Jupiter with Saturn, two of the largest planets in the solar system, is therefore called the great or greater conjunction
The head of the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research added, in special statements for the seventh day, that the great conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn begins days ago and reaches its climax on the afternoon of Monday, December 21, after sunset. sun in the afternoon and beginning of the night, coinciding with the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, where its proximity will exceed the distance. An arc of less than 0.1 degrees is the brightest star in the sky that night.
Observers, amateurs and those interested, can see the conjunction with the naked eye, and there is no danger of that, except that by looking at it through the telescope, we will be able to see the four great moons of Jupiter (Europa – Io – Callisto – Ganymede).
This conjunction repeats every 20 years, as was the last conjunction in May 2000, but the coupling was not that close to Earth except for 800 years, and this is what he described as rare this astronomical event, and it repeats in this image after 60 years in the year 2080.
