{"id":2003,"date":"2020-12-13T07:42:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T14:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2020-12-13T07:42:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T14:42:51","slug":"2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/great-jupiter-saturn-conjunction-dec-21-2020\">If you haven&#8217;t seen Jupiter and Saturn, you&#8217;re missing something! | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A *deep* dive into what&#8217;s happening RIGHT NOW. Look up more than one night.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[snip] The 2020 great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn will be the closest since 1623 and the closest observable since 1226! On December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will be only 0.1 degree apart. [&#8220;Then the two largest worlds in the Solar System will appear in Earth&#8217;s sky separated by only about <strong>1\/5 the apparent diameter of a Full Moon<\/strong>.&#8221;] Some say the pair will look like an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153elongated star\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on that date. Will they? Or will they look like a double planet? To know for sure, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to look and see. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll surely be an appealing and mind-expanding sight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>2002\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extra-close Jupiter-Saturn conjunction won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be matched again until the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction of March 15, 2080.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen Jupiter and Saturn, you&#8217;re missing something! | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky A *deep* dive into what&#8217;s happening RIGHT NOW. Look up more than one night.\u00c2\u00a0 [snip] The 2020 great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn will be the closest since 1623 and the closest observable since 1226! On December 21, Jupiter and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=2003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}