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Separation of Jupiter and Saturn around the time of the 2020 great conjunction. The great conjunction of 2020 was the closest since 1623 [12] [2] and eighth closest of the first three millennia AD, with a minimum separation between the two planets of 6.1 arcminutes. [2]
Jupiter 67.4° West March 31, 2020 11:56 Mars 0°55' south of Saturn 70.6° West April 3, 2020 16:17 Mercury 1°24' south of Neptune 25.9° West May 22, 2020 08:44 Mercury 0°53' south of Venus 18.4° East June 12, 2020 13:18 Mars 1°44' south of Neptune 91.5° east December 21, 2020 18:20 [1] Jupiter 0°06' north of Saturn 31° East
An ancient almanac has been found in Babylon which covers the events of this period, but does not indicate that the conjunctions were of any special interest. [44] In the 20th century, Professor Karlis Kaufmanis, an astronomer, argued that this was an astronomical event where Jupiter and Saturn were in a triple conjunction in the constellation ...
The Great Conjunction is real, and will be most easily visible in the night's sky on Monday. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Just when we thought 2020 was almost over, it’s serving us one last life-changing moment. Monday December 21 marks the Great Conjunction or a rare alignment of Jupiter and Saturn in the night sky.
The rare spectacle resulted from a near convergence of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn that happened to coincide with Monday's winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.
Conjunctions took place between the Moon and, in turn, Mars, Saturn, the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. Mercury also reached inferior conjunction with the Sun. The conjunction between the Moon and the Sun at new Moon produced a total solar eclipse visible in Indonesia and the Pacific Ocean, [ 10 ] when these five naked-eye planets were ...
One of the top astronomy events of 2020 put on a brief, but impressive, show in the sky around the globe after sunset on Dec. 21, an event unlike any other in nearly 800 years. About once every 20 ...