Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Skywatchers are in for an end-of-year treat over the next few days â and you will not need a telescope to see it.
Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in the solar system, will appear together in what is known as a “Great Conjunction” on Monday night.
Astronomy educator Gary Boyle, known as “
The Backyard Astronomer,” says the two planets align every 20 years or so.
“But it’s the separation of the two that makes this very, very rare,” Boyle said in a phone interview Monday.
In fact, it has been nearly 400 years since Jupiter and Saturn passed this close to one another.