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Re:Watch Venus and Jupiter as they converge for this weekend... by stblack on Saturday April 30, 2022 @05:09PM (#31219393)
I am surprised that Astronomy Now would call this a “great conjunction”.

A great conjunction, in astronomy parlance, means just one thing: a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Which, by the way, has a 20 year periodicity. We just had one in December 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction

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