A once-in-a-lifetime meeting in the sky
Science | Saturn and Jupiter will appear closer to each other than they have in nearly 800 years
by John Dawson
Posted 12/10/20, 01:31 pm
If you look up at the night sky on Dec. 21, you will see something humans haven’t seen since the Middle Ages. Jupiter and Saturn will appear in the night sky separated by only one-tenth of 1 degree. For viewers on Earth, it will appear the two planets are separated by the width of a dime held at arm’s length, according to NASA.