Once again the two largest planets in space are coming very close to each other

News Desk: It is not uncommon for people around the world to witness a cosmic event tonight. It is not the second time that someone has seen it for hundreds of years. Today is that Mahendrakshan, which happened 800 years ago. On that day, the two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, came so close that people observed them. Today they will come very close to themselves again.

The people of the world will also witness it. According to the Indian media Anandabazar, this incident can be called coming closer to the brothers of the solar family. According to astronomers, Jupiter and Saturn, the largest and largest members of the solar system, were seen to come so close about 600 years ago. Even though it came close to 400 years ago, it was not seen from the earth. On Monday (December 21) night, people will see the two planets very close again. In that sense, this time around, the Great Conjunction is rare. Although Jupiter will cross Saturn again in 2040, we will have to wait until 2060 to witness this reunion in the night sky again.

Why is this conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn so many years later? Astronomers attribute this to the fact that Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, orbits the Sun about once every 12 years. And since Mej i.e. Saturn is far away from the Sun, the circumference of its orbit is much greater than the circumference of Jupiter's orbit. And so it takes him about 29 and a half years to orbit the sun once. That is, when Saturn orbits the Sun once, Jupiter orbits the Sun twice. As a result, Jupiter passes Saturn every 20 years. I cannot perceive the distance or motion of astrologers from Earth to space, only observe their positions at different times. When Jupiter comes very close to Saturn and passes him away again, only we can see.

But how close Jupiter and Saturn are coming depends on the position of the earth. And according to that position, when Jupiter passes Saturn on December 21 this year, the distance between the two planets from Earth will be the minimum. At this time their brightness will be the highest. Exactly the same thing had happened before on July 17, 1823. But then the apparent position of the two planets in the Earth's sky was very close to the Sun. So many people did not see it. If the Earth is not in exactly the same straight line as Saturn and Jupiter, then Saturn is not completely covered behind Jupiter. This time it will not be. Rather, Saturn and Jupiter can be seen to be exactly on the same page. The last time people saw this was on March 5, 1226.