Watch Live tonight! More amazing webcasts for the winter solstice great conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn
Space
21/12/2020
Editor's note:
Above is a winter solstice great conjunction webcast from the Virtual Telescope Project in Ceccano, Italy, which begins at
10:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT)
. Scroll down for more webcast options.
Jupiter and Saturn will shine together in a winter solstice "Great Conjunction" of 2020 in what many are likening to an early "Christmas Star" tonight (Dec. 21) and you can watch it live online here in a series of webcasts.
The two planets will appear close to each other in the night sky about every 20 years, but they're conjunction in 2020 on Dec. 21 is the closest they've appeared since 1623. Even in that pairing, the conjunction wasn't visible to much of Earth. You have to go back 800 years to when the sight was last widely visible around the world.