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The Holy Bible states a Christmas Star rose in the east some 2,000 years ago around the time of Jesus Christ s birth. According to prophecy, the star would appear as a sign the King of the Jews was born. As the story goes in the Gospel of Matthew, the star led three wise men from the east to the town of Bethlehem where they paid tribute to Jesus with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
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Welcome to the year-end wrap up! You know, the annual end-of-year stock-taking editorial I write before we all go off to enjoy our Christmas and ring in the New Year?
Now, if this were any other year, I’d make some light-hearted joke about all of this. You know, “Oh, nothing much happened this year, there’s really nothing to write about.” Or: “It’s like the opening of
The conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. Credit: John Griffith Heavy cloud cover may spoil hopes of seeing the “Christmas Star” for the first time in 800 years later today, but one reader has captured a stunning image of Jupiter and Saturn converging in the night sky. The two planets are set to line in a conjunction today to appear to form a double planet, dubbed the “Christmas Star” or “Star of Bethlehem”. The Grand Conjunction hasn’t been seen for 800 years – and the weather over the south of England means many of us may miss out on catching a glimpse of it after sunset – but John Griffith was able to capture this fantastic photo of the conjunction last night.
The evening sky over the Northern Hemisphere treated stargazers to a once-in-a-lifetime illusion on Monday as the solar system’s two biggest planets appeared to meet in a celestial alignment that astronomers call the “Great Conjunction” – a planetary intimacy that will not occur again until 2080.
The rare spectacle resulted from a near convergence of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn that happened to coincide with the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.
For those able to observe the alignment in clear skies, the two frozen-gas spheres appeared closer and more vibrant – almost as a single point of light – than at any time in 800 years even though they were, in fact, more than 730 million kilometres (400 million miles) apart.