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Apocalyptic prophecies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe often involved Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions, says historian Laura Ackerman Smoller.
Astronomers and amateur star gazers alike are training their telescopes on the evening sky for a heavenly spectacle when the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is more visible from Earth than it’s been in nearly 800 years.
The celestial event will play out on Monday this year’s winter solstice when our solar system’s two largest planets appear side by side above the horizon soon after sunset.
It’s been nearly eight centuries since the pair of planets appeared in conjunction this close to Earth. In 1623, a similar conjunction of the planets occurred, but on the same side of the sky as the sun, which meant it wasn’t visible from the Blue Planet. Monday’s conjunction will be the first visible occurrence since before the time of Marco Polo.
won t have any part in the selection of the next pope. instead, he will continue to write. he, of course, has a new pacemaker in or the new batteries in his pacemaker, and he ll play a part in the church, certainly, but not to differ with the new pope or to clash in any way which is exactly how the last pope ended up abdicating his position when there were multiple popes that were claiming the papacy, and that was the great western schism. in 1415, as your guest mentioned before the commercial break, they figured it out then. if they can solve that, certainly they can solve this, arthel. arthel: all right. i know you ll be there on top of all of that. thank you, shep. you too, arthel. jon: new questions now about our own military readiness as the deadline nears for those massive cuts to the pentagon s budget. take a live look at washington. union activists there urging congress to stop what they call a reckless move. military leaders also warn that cuts would weaken america s armed f