Google has made a special doodle today. It has been created by Google in collaboration with the US space agency NASA. This animated doodle celebrates the winter solstice. It has been suggested that today you keep your eyes on the present great combination of Saturn and Jupiter from the sky.
On December 21 this year, the winter solstice began in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest night of 2020 will also be an incredible astronomical event known as the Great Combination. This great conjunction has a visual overlap of Saturn and Jupiter that will be visible at night. Saturn and Jupiter are the two largest planets in our solar system.
Tonight Saturn and Jupiter will be within one degree of each other. This great combination occurs about once in 20 years. Last time, this event was easily visible from the sky as would also happen on this winter solstice. This happened around 800 years ago. The Northern Hemisphere is half the northern part of the Earth. It starts at zero degree equator and continues north.
Google Doodle featured a great combination as a cartoon. In this, Saturn and Jupiter meet for a high five. The Earth sees the other two planets. Winter solstice means snow-covered. On Monday, the solstice will be due to the changing distance of the Earth from the Sun.
Let us know that this day is going to be very special for people who are interested in astronomical events. On the longest night of the year, they will get a chance to witness the unique astronomical event occurring in nearly 400 years when Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets in our solar system, get extremely close to each other. The last time this astronomical event took place in the year 1623 in the great astronomer Galileo period. This event will happen again in the 24th century.