{"id":11133,"date":"2020-12-05T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11133"},"modified":"2020-12-19T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T22:39:35","slug":"christmas-star-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/05\/christmas-star-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Star Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/jupiter-and-saturn-to-align-in-the-sky-this-month-as-christmas-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Fox News 5 NY<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jupiter and Saturn to align in the sky this month as &#8216;Christmas Star&#8217;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong>Chris Ciaccia and Fox 13 News staff<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.foxtv.com\/static.fox5ny.com\/www.fox5ny.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/764\/432\/GettyImages-1142160818.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two largest planets in the solar system,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/jupiter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jupiter<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/saturn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saturn<\/a>, have fascinated astronomers for hundreds of years. But the two gas giants will do something next month not seen since the Middle Ages &#8212; they will look like a double&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/air-and-space\/planets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rare occurrence will happen after sunset on Dec. 21, 2020, the start of the winter solstice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 1614,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.adsabs.harvard.edu\/\/full\/1937JRASC..31..417B\/0000417.000.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">German astronomer Johannes Kepler suggested<\/a>\u00a0that a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn\u00a0may be what was referred to as the &#8220;Star of Bethlehem&#8221; in the Nativity story, while others\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jamiecartereurope\/2020\/11\/20\/a-spectacularly-rare-christmas-star-is-coming-in-december-as-two-worlds-align-after-sunset\/?sh=2af020b3b084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have suggested<\/a>\u00a0that the &#8220;three wise men&#8221; could have been a\u00a0triple conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus.\u00a0But it&#8217;s unknown if\u00a0the \u201cChristmas Star\u201d was a real astronomical event, like a planetary conjunction or a comet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/jupiter-and-saturn-to-align-in-the-sky-this-month-as-christmas-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to read full article at Fox 5 NY<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Fox News 5 NY Jupiter and Saturn to align in the sky this month as &#8216;Christmas Star&#8217; By\u00a0Chris Ciaccia and Fox 13 News staff The two largest planets in the solar system,&nbsp;Jupiter&nbsp;and&nbsp;Saturn, have fascinated astronomers for hundreds of years. But the two gas giants will do something next month not seen since the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}