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Last night, the two largest planets in our solar system got closer than they had been for centuries.
The fact that Jupiter and Saturn are close to each other when viewed from Earth occurs approximately every 20 years. But how close they seem to heaven varies. Sometimes the full moon easily fits between Jupiter and Saturn. On Monday night, however, they appeared almost as a single particularly bright spot.
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The “Great Conjunction” just above the horizon, photographed in California’s Mojave National Park.
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This spectacle was last seen in the night sky in 1226. In 1623, Jupiter and Saturn also became similarly close, but during the day. So one couldn’t see the “Great Conjunction” with the eye back then.
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Jupiter and Saturn got very close last night, here in the sky over Split in Croatia.
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People all over the world looked up to the sky to see the meeting of the two largest planets in our solar system, which astronomers call the “great conjunction.”
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Stakeholders also observed the sky phenomenon from the Syrian capital Damascus.
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In the Indian metropolis of Calcutta, hundreds of amateur astronomers followed the show through a telescope in a technology museum and from rooftops or open spaces.
In Kuwait, fans of the planet moved into the desert to get a particularly good view of the sky phenomenon.
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In this image of Seoul, South Korea, you can see Saturn with its rings at the top and the gas giant Jupiter at the bottom.
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The closeness of the two planets in the sky depends on how Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth are related. And the following applies: the eye deceives. In fact, the two planets were still hundreds of millions of kilometers apart yesterday.
The approach of Jupiter and Saturn is gradual. So if you didn’t see the view last night, you can try again today, if the two planets are no longer directly next to each other, but still close.
Legend:
On December 19, Jupiter and Saturn seemed even further apart, here over Topeka in the United States.
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