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Astronomers, space scientists, and space enthusiasts around the world got their first look on Tuesday, July 12 at the first images collected by the James Webb Space Telescope. To get an initial take on these new images and better understand what they’re showing we talked with astronomer and FGCU Whitaker Eminent Scholar Dr. Derek Buzasi shortly after they were released.
A once in a lifetime astronomical event is happening Monday night and the best part is you won’t need a telescope or binoculars to witness it.
What’s being called the Christmas Star is not really a star but instead the planets Jupiter and Saturn coming so close to each other that they will appear to be one giant star.
“They’re almost like one star tonight when you go out there to look at them,” said Dr. Derek Buzasi, a Whitaker Eminent Scholar in Science and astronomer at Florida Gulf Coast University.
The pair of planets come this closely together about once every 400 years, Buzasi said.