Winter Solstice Great Conjunction Pic. Today's animated Doodle "celebrates the Northern Hemisphere's first day of winter as well as this rare double planet sighting- or "Great Conjunction". The Winter Solstice itself is an important moment of the year.
Those actually occur about two weeks before and two weeks after the winter solstice. The winter solstice doesn't coincide with the latest sunrise or the earliest sunset. The Great conjunction occurs every twenty years or so and is when both Jupiter and Saturn align at the same degree of the zodiac.
Google, in collaboration with NASA, has replaced their homepage logo in the Northern Hemisphere with an animated Doodle celebrating the winter solstice and suggesting that you keep your eyes to the skies for the current "great conjunction" of Saturn and Jupiter.
Saturn and Jupiter have appeared fairly close together in our sky throughout the year.
Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. The animated Google Doodle today exhibits Great Conjunction and Winter Solstice. We're due for a more observable great conjunction.
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