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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]
March 20, 2020 06:21 Mars 0°42' south of 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
The Great Conjunction is real, and will be most easily visible in the night's sky on Monday. ... It's the first time in 800 years that this has happened in a way that much of the world will be ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The evening sky over the Northern Hemisphere treated stargazers to a once-in-a-lifetime illusion on Monday as the solar system's two biggest planets appeared to meet in a ...
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.
Astronomers have made several attempts to link the star to unusual celestial events, such as a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn or Jupiter and Venus, [5] a comet, or a supernova. [6] Some modern scholars do not consider the story to be describing a historical event, but rather a pious fiction added later to the main gospel account. [7]
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 ...
During the opposition period 1503 Mars stood 3 times in conjunction with Jupiter (October 5, 1503, January 19, 1504, and February 8, 1504) and 3 times in conjunction with Saturn (October 14, 1503, December 26, 1503, and March 7, 1504). Jupiter and Saturn stood on May 24, 1504, in close conjunction with an angular separation of 19 arcminutes.