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On the evening of December 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn appear to come together as one bright star, in an event called a ‘great conjunction’. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh explains what planetary conjunctions are, why this great conjunction is special, and why humans could be making history tonight.
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Historic Great Conjunction today in the evening sky
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