The two planets have by no means been so shut since 1623.
Kolkata:
Space fans had the chance to look at a uncommon celestial occasion on Monday evening-as the Jupiter and the Saturn appeared to merge and looked-like a single shiny star, in what is known as a conjunction.
People gathered to look at the phenomenon, which befell after about 400 years, on rooftops and open grounds in-different components of Kolkata and West Bengal although the winter-fog partially hindered the view.
Hundreds of sky gazers assembled on the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum within the metropolis because the leading-science museum has made an association for them to view the-cosmic occasion on the south-western a part of the sky by way of a-telescope, a BITM spokesman mentioned.
The two planets have by no means been so shut since 1623,-Director of M P Birla Planetarium, Debi Prasad Duari, mentioned.
He mentioned, “If two celestial bodies visually appear close to each other from the Earth, it is called a conjunction. And such conjunction of the Saturn and the-Jupiter is at times called a great conjunction” if it happens-once in a lifetime.
The planets will once more seem to come back as shut as this-from the Earth on March 15, 2080.
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