No Social Distancing for Jupiter & Saturn!

Jupiter and Saturn, the two of the biggest planets in our solar system aligned the closest to each other on December 21, resulting in a ‘conjunction’. Social media platforms have been flooded with pictures and videos of the phenomena and it was even trending on Twitter.

In the once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon, Jupiter and Saturn will cross within .1 degrees of each other (a fraction of the width of the full moon), overlapping to form a ‘double planet when seen from Earth.