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Christmas Star spotted as Jupiter and Saturn make the Great Conjunction
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mirror.co.ukStargazers were treated to an early Christmas twinkle as Saturn and Jupiter came together in what is know as the Great Conjunction.
Stunning pictures have been shared online of the spectacular event - which sees the two planets coming the closest they have in hundreds of years.
While conjunctions - where objects appear very close to each other in the sky - are not rare, this was an "exceptionally close" one - the closest since 1623, Professor Michael Burton said.
But even then, Prof Burton - who is also the director of the longest-running astronomical observatory in the British Isles - suggested it was daytime when the phenomena occurred, meaning people never got to see it. "The last one which actually would have been well placed to be seen
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