As a difficult year approaches its end, there’s a heavenly spectacle to look out for tonight and conditions are perfect!
Tonight, Monday 21st December 2020, stargazers can look out for “The Christmas Star”, a rare phenomenon which hasn’t happened for almost 800 years.
Planets Jupiter and Saturn have aligned so closely in the night sky that they almost appear to collide from our vantage point here on Earth, creating a radiant point of light referred to as the “Star of Bethlehem” or the “Christmas Star.
It was last seen in the year 1226. Here’s the picture from our garden in tonight’s clear skies. To get a view yourself, if you’re in Blantyre, look to the southwest (towards East Kilbride), well above the horizon.
Anybody else see it?
