Jupiter-Saturn Great Conjunction: Christmas Star
NASA has discovered that after nearly 400 years, Saturn and Jupiter – the two largest planets in our solar system – have become closest in the night sky by an astronomical event called the “great conjunction” and popularly referred to as the “Christmas Star”.
- On 21st December 2020, almost all the viewers across the world saw the two gas giants very close to each other, while they were still hundreds of millions of miles apart in space.
- The event coincided with the winter solstice (shortest day of the year in terms of hours of sunlight received) in the Northern Hemisphere and summer ....
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