Association of the Moroccan Initiative for Science and Thought: The world is on a date with the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

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Witness on 21 December , which is an annual event of the winter solstice and an exceptional event which is the greatest among the largest planets in the solar pairing group Jupiter Jupiter and Saturn Saturn not seen one of eight centuries ago, and will not happen again before 2080 AD.

An exceptional conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, in which the duo will not be separated by more than 0.1 degree arc, and when we talk about the bodies that appear close together in the sky, we are talking about the two stars, the apron and the amygdala, which appear close together, and the distance between Jupiter and Saturn will be half the distance that separates this duo .

This event is repeated every 397 years, but the last time that it happened it was not possible to observe the conjunction, it was in July 1623 AD, but most likely no one witnessed it because Jupiter and Saturn at that time were close in our sky to the sun, so they were setting after sunset So little that it is almost impossible to observe them, and the last time the conjugation occurred and could have been observed was in March 1226 CE as the pair adorned the sky before dawn .

The pairing will not happen suddenly, from today and over the coming days, follow after sunset the scene of Jupiter and Saturn in the southwest of the sky and notice their convergence night after night, the pair will reach the maximum convergence on Monday evening, December 21st .

In conclusion, we mention that no such coupling will occur again until March 15, 2080.