Final Thoughts
December 18, 2020
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
Tomorrow (Monday, Dec. 21) will be the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest day of the year (darkest day of the year). With the pandemic raging, and the government breaking out two vaccines to treat COVID-19, the hope is that as the daylight gets longer the pandemic will begin to fade away.
For star gazers, something else is going to happen tomorrow night. Two planets, Jupiter and Saturn, will be in close proximity to one another as we look into the night sky. They will appear to be one ultra-bright star in the southwest sky in the hour after sunset. The last time the two planets came visually this close to each other was in the year 1226 AD.
