https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/jupiter-and-saturn-will-come-within-0-1-degrees-of-each-other-forming-the-first-visible-double-planet-in-800-years Safeguarding Humanity Sat, 26 Dec 2020 15:46:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/jupiter-and-saturn-will-come-within-0-1-degrees-of-each-other-forming-the-first-visible-double-planet-in-800-years#comment-421904 Sat, 26 Dec 2020 15:46:13 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/jupiter-and-saturn-will-come-within-0-1-degrees-of-each-other-forming-the-first-visible-double-planet-in-800-years#comment-421904 Yes, you are right, The word “conjunction” is used by astronomers to describe the meeting of objects in our night sky, and the great conjunction occurs between the two largest planets in our solar system: Jupiter and Saturn. As a gas giant, Jupiter doesn’t have a true surface. … While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Jupiter, it wouldn’t be able to fly through unscathed either.

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