Tonight, 21st December 2020 sees the Great or Grand Conjunction of the two largest planets, Jupiter and Saturn, visible in the evening skies for a short time after sunset. Conjunctions of these two planets only happen every 20 years, but very few of them are as close as 2020s, when the two planets will appear only about 1/5th of the width of the full Moon apart. The next opportunity to see them this close is not until the year 2080.
12 авг 2024