Happy Winter Solstice/Yule Everyone! 🌒🌕🌘 . . . Reposted from @la.astronomical.society On December 21, 2020 (coincidentally the northern hemisphere’s winter solstice), Jupiter and Saturn will appear to almost touch in the sky to unaided eyes. Their closest appearance since July 16, 1623 (only 14 years after Galileo made his first telescope), this chart simulation depicts how the “Great Conjunction” will look in a single eyepiece field of view through binoculars. The planets’ angular separation of 6 arcminutes (0.1°) is only one fifth the diameter of the Moon. ONE FIFTH!!! This distance won’t be matched again until the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction of March 15, 2080. (The picture is a chart simulation created using PowerPoint and SkySafari software app. 🔭 🔭 🔭 🔭 🔭 🔭 🔭 🔭 Image credit and copyright: Edward Van Orden @evo.slq - LAAS. @la.astronomical.society #greatconjunction2020 #jupiter #saturn #solarsystem @planetarysociety #universe #callisto #io #ganymede #moonsofjupiter #europa @aas_office @griffithobservatory #december21st #astronomy #cosmology #science #worldhistory #history #space #spaceexploration #cosmos https://www.instagram.com/p/CJEftkEn6X2/?igshid=1ktg0uue8s6ea