{"id":676789,"date":"2020-12-22T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=676789"},"modified":"2020-12-22T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:47:33","slug":"photos-great-conjunction-dazzles-stargazers-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=676789","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: &#039;Great Conjunction&#039; Dazzles Stargazers Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/gettyimages-1230250136_wide-0e1beec3327f69c74cba13b2172ab384b6326e26.jpg\" alt=\"Kuwaiti photographers follow the alignment between Jupiter and Saturn in al-Salmi district, a desert area about 75 miles west of Kuwait City, on Monday.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening, Jupiter and Saturn appeared closer to each other in the sky than they have for hundreds of years, in what has become known as the &#8220;Great Conjunction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Yasser Al-Zayyat\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/npr-rss-pixel-14.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/12\/22\/949118147\/photos-great-conjunction-dazzles-stargazers-around-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHOTOS: &#8216;Great Conjunction&#8217; Dazzles Stargazers Around The World<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday evening, Jupiter and Saturn appeared closer to each other in the sky than they have for hundreds of years, in what has become known as the &#8220;Great Conjunction.&#8221;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}