A day to celebrate: 'Winter Star' arrives with solstice - Shelter Island Reporter
Visitors to Kissing Rock Monday evening, searching for the ‘Winter Star.’ (Credit: Eleanor P. Labrozzi) Some Islanders went out around dusk Monday — the shortest day, the Winter Solstice — to see the rare event of the “Christmas Star” that comes around every 20 years or so. The “star” is actually two planets, Jupiter and Saturn, which come close together and beam brightly as one to the human eye. This year’s Christmas Star is an even rarer event, since it will be the closest to the Earth since the early 17th century, and won’t be this close for anoth...