{"id":23933,"date":"2020-12-15T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T05:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23933"},"modified":"2020-12-15T05:50:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T05:50:18","slug":"great-conjunction-saturn-and-jupiter-converge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23933","title":{"rendered":"Great Conjunction: Saturn and Jupiter Converge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2012\/SaturnJupiter_Voltmer_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>It&#8217;s happening. Saturn and Jupiter are moving closer and will soon appear in almost exactly the same direction. Coincidentally, on the night of the December solstice &#8212; the longest night of the year in the north and the longest day in the south &#8212; the long-awaited Great Conjunction will occur. Then, about six days from now, Saturn and Jupiter will be right next to each other &#8212; as they are every 20 years. But this juxtaposition is not just any Great Conjunction &#8212; it will be the closest since 1623 because the two planetary giants will pass only 1\/10th of a degree from each other &#8212; well less than the apparent diameter of a full moon. In the next few days a crescent moon will also pass a few degrees away from the converging planets and give a preliminary opportunity for iconic photos. The featured illustration shows the approach of Saturn and Jupiter during November and December over the French Alps. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap201215.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s happening. Saturn and Jupiter are moving closer and will soon appear in almost exactly the same direction. Coincidentally, on the night of the December solstice &#8212; the longest night <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23933\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-23933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23934,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23933\/revisions\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}