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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
About once every 20 years, Jupiter and Saturn do a tight-knit dance in the night sky, an astronomical meet-up known as a conjunction. ... One of the top astronomy events of 2020 put on a brief ...
The cyclical between Jupiter and Saturn that occurs every twenty years has been the preeminent method of demarcating historical eras in traditional astrology. The 2020 Great Conjunction: Jupiter ...
During most of February, March, and April, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were close to each other, and so they underwent a series of conjunctions: on March 20, Mars was in conjunction with Jupiter, and on March 31, Mars was in conjunction with Saturn. On December 21, Jupiter and Saturn appeared at their closest separation in the sky since 1623, in ...
Viral photo posted to social media upon the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn was captured via telescope in Massachusetts, using a special technique. Fact check: Images of Saturn, Jupiter are real ...
Jupiter might have shaped the Solar System on its grand tack. In planetary astronomy, the grand tack hypothesis proposes that Jupiter formed at a distance of 3.5 AU from the Sun, then migrated inward to 1.5 AU, before reversing course due to capturing Saturn in an orbital resonance, eventually halting near its current orbit at 5.2 AU.
It's the first time in 800 years that this has happened in a way that much of the world will be able to see the spectacle, and it just happens to fall on the Winter Solstice, the longest night of ...