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to distant planets, hard to spot with the naked eye.
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But on Monday night, Jupiter and Saturn seemed to have become a double planet in the night sky for star gazers in the Northern Hemisphere, a bright spot to cap off.
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What has bean a very fraught year for many Astronomers call this the great conjunction.
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But given the timing, many are calling it the Christmas Star on speculating about whether they also crossed paths two millennia ago to form a bright light that guided the biblical three kings.
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Jupiter and Saturn are our solar system's two largest planets on, although their orbits briefly aligned them from the Earth Innings standpoint.
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In reality, the two frozen gas spheres are hundreds of millions of miles apart.
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The last time they had such a celestial meeting was in the year 12 26 long before telescopes were invented.
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Those who missed it may get another chance to see the phenomenon.