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What is the Winter Solstice and where can I see the Great Conjunction in London

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Vincent
Date21 December 2020
Published date21 December 2020
The reason the days will soon start to get longer is because we have reached a point in the The celebrities we loved and lost in 2020 called the Winter Solstice.

In the northern hemisphere, the Winter Solstice marks the 24-hour period with the fewest daylight hours of the year.

At the moment the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the 'Angels' spotted on Mars as the '3 wise men' star appears in the sky for the first time in 800 years making its arc lower. The Winter Solstice occurs when the sun is at its lowest point in the sky in the year.

The actual moment of the solstice in 2020 happened at 10.02am on Monday December 21, but most people concentrate on the whole solstice day, with celebrations and festivities.

Monday will only be seven hours, 49 minutes and 42 seconds long in London.

This year is a special year, for many reasons, but especially because of a phenomenon known as the Great Conjunction

On Monday evening Jupiter and Saturn will be so close together in the sky that they will form one very bright point of light, instead of two.

When this happens it is called a conjunction, but because Jupiter and Saturn are so...

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