Stargazers Catch Glimpse of the ‘Christmas Star’

The family Mota Velazco uses a telescope to view Jupiter and Saturn during a planetary conjunction, at the border crossing between Mexico and the United States in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Dec. 21, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

The evening sky over the Northern Hemisphere treated stargazers to a once-in-a-lifetime illusion on Monday as the solar system's two biggest planets appeared to meet in a celestial alignment that astronomers call the "Great Conjunction."

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