planetary conjunction

This year, as dusk gives way to darkness on the night of the Winter Solstice (December 21 st 2020), residents of the United States, the United Kingdom, and other nations across the Northern Hemisphere will bear witness to a highly unusual astronomical occurrence. Low in the southern sky on the longest night of the year, the two largest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, will be in nearly direct alignment as viewed from the surface of the Earth. When two planets are visible and adjacent in the same section of the sky, this is known as a planetary conjunction. The pending Jupiter and Saturn conjunction is truly remarkable, since it will bring these planets so close together that