Jupiter and Saturn will be so close today that they will appear to form a "double planet." Such a spectacular great conjunction, as the planetary alignment has come to be known, hasn't occurred in ...

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The rare event is officially called a "great conjunction." "These occur every 20 years this century as the orbits of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn periodically align making these two outer planets ...

Saturn, whose orbit is outside that of Jupiter, is considerably more distant. Though the planets rendezvous in our night sky every two decades or so, the next “great conjunction” that brings ...

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Last month, Jupiter and Saturn treated skywatchers to a spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime "great conjunction," when they were closer in the night sky than they had been since medieval times.

The Perth Observatory in Australia says that Jupiter and Saturn last approached this closely to each other in July 1623, but as with the conjunction in 2000, it was hard to spot. "You'd have to go ...

The clearer the sky is, and the father from city lights you are, the easier it will be to see the conjunction. Jupiter will look brightest to the naked eye (it's about 10 times bright than Saturn ...

The meeting of Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in the solar system, is called a great conjunction and the last time this happened when we could see them was in 1980. Jupiter takes 12 ...

On December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will meet in a “great conjunction,” the closest they could be seen in the sky together for nearly 800 years. An astronomical conjunction occurs when any two ...

On the night of the Winter Solstice on Dec. 21, Jupiter and Saturn will be so close that they will appear to form a "double planet." It’s known as the great conjunction. Jupiter and Saturn will ...

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