Space.com
We are now closing in on the long-awaited night of Dec. 21, when Jupiter and Saturn will engage in their “great conjunction.”
We call it a “great” conjunction because to ancient skywatchers, these were the two slowest moving planets in the sky. Jupiter takes nearly 12 years to describe a full circle in the heavens, spending a year visiting each zodiacal sign in the sky, while Saturn takes 29.5 years to make one full trip around the sun. Because of their respective slow movement, a conjunction or — to the ancients — a “celestial summit meeting,” was rather unusual. Such get-togethers happen, in most cases, about every 20 years on average.
So, when Jupiter and Saturn got together it was simply a conjunction, but a “great” conjunction! More
I’ve been watching them for the past two weeks, getting closer every day. Look in the soutwest sky just after sunset on a clear night.
Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?
Uranus is big and gassy, uh-huh huh uh huh
did you know that Earth can fit into Uranus 63 times?!?!
… 64 if you’d just relax 😉 😝
So Baby Jesus was actually born on December 5, 7 BC
Yep, cloudy with snow.
Happens every celestial event.
Well I hope it won’t be big letdown like the comet Kahoochie back in 1973.
When I saw Saturn for the first time through a telescope, I was surprised the rings were vertical.
I think any publication should show the actual orientation. Not some artistic interpretation. It just made me think that much if science p
resentation is manipulated.
And in some ancient cultures, this was considered a bad omen.
“…As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
Disasters in the sun, and the moist star
Upon whose influence Neptune’s empire stands
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.
And even the like precurse of feared events,
As harbingers preceding still the fates
And prologue to the omen coming on,
Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
Unto our climatures and countrymen.”
-Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, Act 1, Scene 1
“”When beggars die there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
-Shakespeare, “Julia Caesar”, Act 2, scene 2.
Alright ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, if the starfish dude chimes in here now, it’s on you. 😉
I don’t see this celestial conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter as a coincidence but as a divine sign from God that he is still in charge in this most messed up of years. I’m praying that I’ll be able to see it tomorrow night and later this week in the SW sky. Like the late Jack Horkheimer used to say Happy stargazing.
Prelude to the democrats Armageddon?
Keep
Looking
Up
I’m hoping to find out which one gives off more gas.
Can we just get it over with and execute the bastard immediately?
It’s not the Christmas star!
Christ was born closer to the springtime.
Wrong post, this comment should’ve been on the top post about the pedophile and the 12 year old girl. How the heck did my comment end up way down here. Someone’s screwing with our comments trying to make us look like idiots who don’t know what we’re doing. Make them go away!
Saw it tonight. We had clear skies. A big light and a smaller one next to it.
Hey, I lit up a number and started groovin’ with the whole freakin’ scene. Dig it? There has got to be some folks up there lookin’ down at us the same time we are lookin’ up at them. When they come down here I’m gonna ask them to take me to Venus, Mars, wherever, man. I gotta get outta this place…it’s breakin’ my mind, man.