The Great Conjunction is name given to the two Mega Planets in our Solar System come together to form large star in the night sky. These two Biggest Planets are namely the Jupiter (largest planet) and Saturn (second largest planet).
Today 21 December the we can the see this event in the night sky . We can see the planets at southwestern sky. We can see this event without any eye protection.
Dr. James O’Donoghue Planetary Scientist at Jaxa has tweeted the timing for great conjunction.
- Los Angeles: 09:43
- New York: 12:43
- Rio de Janeiro: 14:43
- London/UTC: 17:43
- Paris/CET: 18:43
- Istanbul: 20:43
- Dubai: 21:43
- New Delhi: 23:13
- Tokyo: 02:43 (22 Dec)
- Sydney: 04:43 (22 Dec) (+/- minutes; )
This Post picture is taken from Nasa official Solar System webpage. This is the static image but in the Nasa official Planets Page we can we see the live tracking of all the planets in our Solar System . This animation will tech us how our Planets are moving in our Solar System. If we search for particular planet we see the closer look of the planet and we can see the solar system from that planet point of view.
The official Nasa Solar System : https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/
These two planets align every 20 years , but this the closest alignment since July 16, 1623 , 397 ago.
You can track the planets with your phone using the Sky Map . This App was created by Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.stardroid&hl=en_IN&gl=US