A few days before the \u2018Great Conjunction\u2019, which will be able to see once in your lifetime, the crescent Moon will pass close to Jupiter and Saturn in the night sky on December 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will surely catch the Moon and the two largest planets in our solar system very close to each other in the southwest sky after sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That will be the first of nine evenings when Jupiter and Saturn will appear nearer to each other than apparent diameter \ufeff\u7280\u5229\u58eb<\/a>\n<\/span>of the Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dimagi Abeysinghe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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