{"id":2875,"date":"2025-09-08T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:31:27","slug":"conjunction-of-jupiter-and-saturn-december-21st-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/2025\/09\/08\/conjunction-of-jupiter-and-saturn-december-21st-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, December, 21st, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo taken by Matthew Salfer-Hobbs and Joseph Coffaro with the 50 cm diameter Graz telescope at the TISTEF facility.\u00a0 TISTEF is a UCF-run laser range facility near KSC on Merritt Island, directed by Dr Robert Bernath, now part of the Center for Directed Energy Systems, Science &amp; Technology, C-DESST.\u00a0 Saturn and Jupiter are hundreds of millions of miles apart, but on this evening, they were both in line with the Earth. Last observed in the evening sky some 800 years ago, it is conjectured by many that this event, or a similar one, could have been the biblical \u2018Star of Bethlehem\u2019 that guided the Magi to the birthplace of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 It will next be visible on March 15, 2080.<\/p>\n<p>Posted Monday, December 21, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo taken by Matthew Salfer-Hobbs and Joseph Coffaro with the 50 cm diameter Graz telescope at the TISTEF facility.\u00a0 TISTEF is a UCF-run laser range facility near KSC on Merritt Island, directed by Dr Robert Bernath, now part of the Center for Directed Energy Systems, Science &amp; Technology, C-DESST.\u00a0 Saturn and Jupiter are hundreds of&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}