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11-29-2020

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If you've been looking up in the evening over the last several months, you may have seen some rather bright objects in the southern sky. Those are the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and on December 21 they are going to appear closer together than people have seen in nearly 400 years.

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This article was published in the Inside Out column of the News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, IL) and is available to read in The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, IL) through the NewsBank database: Closest Jupiter, Saturn conjunction in almost 400 years.

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