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Jupiter and Saturn will overlap in the sky tonight: Aligned just right
Astronomer Christopher De Pree is about to see something unseen from Earth since Galileo first pointed his telescope at the stars. Our solar system s two biggest planets in one viewfinder: Jupiter and Saturn.
All month, just after sunset, skywatchers have captured the pair of planets slowly coming together in the southwest sky.
Monday night, they ll overlap appearing to merge into a single source of light. It s called an astronomical conjunction.
In metro Atlanta, De Pree directs the Bradley Observatory at Agnes Scott College. He told CBS News Mark Strassmann how close Saturn and Jupiter will actually be to each other.