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Rare ‘Christmas Star’ event to occur on the winter solstice this year – Lonely Planet Travel News
Stargazers are in for a treat this Christmas as Jupiter and Saturn are closing in on a ‘great conjunction’ on December 21.
Skywatchers are in for a festive treat as the planets Jupiter and Saturn are closing in on their great conjunction on December 21, the day of the winter solstice. At their nearest, theyll be only 0.1 degrees apart from us here on Earth, the closest they’ve been since 1623 and the closest observable since 1226.
According to Earthsky, the term “great conjunction” describes the meetings of the two biggest worlds in our solar system. Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions happen every 20 years, with the last one…
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