A piece of big news which is coming in headlines with lots of traffic and mostly all the peoples searches this with their respective device, we are talking about the great event which will happen today on 21st December 2020 is Winter Solstice. In other words, it is called December solstice, hiemal solstice, or hibernal solstice and this great event is takes place when our Earth’s pole is slanted away from the sun at its maximum distance. With this, the daylight time will be quite short just because of the long distance from the sun while the night time will increase and said to be the longest night of the year.
In this month of December, there are several celestial events that take place and there are two events that are taking place on 21st December. If we kept the winter solstice aside, then today’s date will also be remembered for the great conjunction because today the planets Jupiter and Saturn will come closers and can be easily seen through normal eyes in the sky. This incredible or great event was last seen in the year 1623 and it is expected that it will again take place in 2080. Both planets slow-moving planets will be 0.1 degrees apart.
All Information Regarding Today’s Conjunction:
1. As per the report of Nasa, the conjunction timing will be at that time where everyone can see this easily through naked eyes.
2. Both planets come so closer to each other by which you can cover both planets with your pinkie finger.
3. The conjunction will be easy to see after an hour of sunset in the southwestern sky.
4. Talking about the Indian Standard Time, then the conjunction will clearly show in between the time of 6.30 PM IST and 7.30 PM IST.
5. The popular Planetarium in the city of Delhi named Nehru Planetarium started registration for a better view of conjunction, as we all know that about pandemic by which they started the skywatch from December 20 for better social distancing.
6. This conjunction will collaborate with the December solstice by which there will be the shortest day in the northern hemisphere and longest in the south of the year.
Leave a Reply