“Star” to appear just before Christmas – Boing Boing

Just in time for Christmas a celestial spectacle will take place in the night sky on the winter solstice, December 21, but it won’t be an actual star.
via NBC 5 Chicago
It’s called the “Great Conjunction,” or the moment when Jupiter and Saturn appear at their closest “a tenth of a degree apart” according to Chicago’s Adler Planetarium.
Both planets will appear to be one mass, projecting a very bright light just after sunset in the southwest sky. Fear not, doomsayers, the planetary giants will still…

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