The innermost planets straddle nighttime, with Mercury in the evening and the greatest western elongation of Venus in the ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA. - DEC. 21, 2020: Jupiter and Saturn appear less than one-tenth of a degree apart from each other during the Great Conjunction, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, in the night sky above San ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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On the evenings of December 15 through 18, stargazers can easily find Jupiter and Saturn moving in conjunction by looking toward the waxing crescent moon in the western sky 45 minutes after sunset ...

“The date of the conjunction is determined by the positions of Jupiter, Saturn, and the Earth in their paths around the Sun, while the date of the solstice is determined by the tilt of Earth’s axi ...

Jupiter and Saturn's last conjunction was in 2000. But this year is particularly special because the two will appear to separated by just one-fifth the diameter of a full moon – or 0.1 ...

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 ...