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Columnist also details Venus at greatest brilliancy and a possible comet in December.

Special to the Tribune By now you may have been seeing articles on- line about the “Christmas Star” that will be visible on the evening of the 21st of December (Monday). Some reports are saying this will be the same star that the Three Wise Men followed. Some scholars suggest the Christmas Star was not a bright new star that was leading the wise men but rather a conjunction of two or three planets in the night sky and that the Wise Men were following, or watching.  A planetary conjunction is when two or more planets seem to align, or come together, in the night sky. While the pla...

Explained: What is the Great Conjunction of Saturn & Jupiter, also called the ‘Christmas Star’? Jupiter-Saturn great conjunction: On December 21, almost all the viewers across the world will be able to see the two gas giants very close to each other, while they will still be hundreds of millions of miles apart in space. Updated: December 23, 2020 7:54:19 am Saturn, top, and Jupiter, below, are seen after sunset from Shenandoah National Park, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in Luray, Virginia, United Stated. (Credits: NASA/ Bill Ingalls) Jupiter-Saturn great con...