The COVID-19 epidemic must be recognized as dominant throughout 2020. However, this heavenly event later this year promises even more spectacular events.
December offers amazing views that most people can enjoy from home, without even the need for binoculars or expensive equipment.
Two planets in one, Meteor Rain Beautiful and Total solar eclipse. To see this sight, all you need is sunny conditions, eye protection when needed and a few points to know which way the eyes should go.
December 13-14: Gemini meteor shower seen from all corners of the world.
In recent months, you may have seen meteorites, but be prepared for the “king of meteor showers”.
“Most meteor showers occur when Earth moves in a dusty comet orbit,” said Patricia Skelton, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in England.
“But the Gemini meteorite is different – a dust trail leaving an asteroid, known as 3,200 bits,” said Patricia.
So every year, when the Earth passes through the particles, we see 150 stars at their peak on December 13-14, 2020.
“Meteors enter the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of about 35 kilometers per second … or less than 130 thousand kilometers per hour!”, Said Patricia.
Meteor shower scenes can be yellow and sometimes green or blue, similar to the string of lights in the night sky and occur when a meteor burns (and flies in different directions “.
The dark nights and the opportunities to enjoy this lovely event are enormous, but you can still see some light in polluted urban areas.
Unlike last year (meteor shower during the full moon), this time there will be a new moon, which means the moon will be closed so that the sky looks dark.
December 14: Total solar eclipse visible from Chile and Argentina.
In pre-epidemic times, many people came to Patagonia in southern Chile and Argentina to witness this extraordinary event. However due to the year of the epidemic, most people will follow these events via the internet.
For those who have the opportunity to see this in person, it’s best to wear eye protection and not look directly at the sun.
Royal Greenwich Laboratory astronomer Tania de Sales Marks said the new moon would be 24 minutes earlier than the sun and completely closed for “two minutes and 9.6 seconds.”
Tanya explained that “the moon is 400 times smaller than the majestic one”, but that it appears bigger because it is very close to us, and “it is hidden from all disks of the sun”.
The position of the Moon in front of Mahathir will create a gloomy atmosphere during the day in the southern part of South America.
Sky changes can be seen by the native tribes of Patagonia, the Mapuche people. “The sun symbolizes ‘male energy’ and the moon symbolizes ‘female energy’.
“Solar eclipses have been recorded all over the world and throughout history for nearly 5,000 years,” said Tania.
“Much history has shown that a total solar eclipse is considered a bad omen because the sun appears to be swallowed up in a short period of time, day and night,” the astronomer added.
Tania said, “There may be five solar eclipses at a time, but a total solar eclipse only occurs once every 18 months, when the moon is on the right and completely stops the light coming from the sun.
Eclipse Observe the next total Occurs in Antarctica (December 2021), Indonesia and Australia (April 2023), the United States and Canada (April 2024), Southern Europe and Greenland (August 2026) and North Africa and the Middle East (August 2027).
December 21: When Jupiter and Saturn align, visible from all over the world.
“Jupiter and Saturn are the most beautiful planets to look at in the sky because they are beautiful and bright,” said Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
This phenomenon occurs when two planets line up and shine from one planet simultaneously.
This is exactly what will happen on the night of December 21, when “the planets Jupiter and Saturn will appear very close in the sky,” said Ed.
In plain view, the two planets appear to be less than 0.1, but in reality they are about 800 million km between Earth and Jupiter.
If you have a small telescope, you can see Jupiter’s four large moons: Io, Europa, Conmeet, and Callisto.
These moons are also called Galilean moons because the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed them several months ago in 1610 with a new telescope.
The Saturn-Jupiter encounter only occurs every 19.6 years, but “this time is more special than the others because 2020 events on the two planets are very close from the beginning of the 17th century,” said Ed.
Jupiter and Saturn last appeared very close 397 years ago, in 1623.
Because of this, astronomers and astronomers are looking forward to the event, and it becomes a kind of “experience of a lifetime”.
“Focusing on planetary motion gives us insight into the solar system long before we go into space,” said the astronomer.
Evidence of the mechanisms and processes behind planetary motion provides additional understanding of the universe through advances in science, he concluded.
If the sky is clear, it will be easy to see, but you should hurry, because the chance to see the two planets is only one hour, before sinking behind the horizon.
In the Southern Hemisphere, December 21 is the longest day of summer or first day of summer in astronomical calculations, and the shortest or first day of winter.
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