{"id":288111,"date":"2020-12-21T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=288111"},"modified":"2021-01-06T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:08:18","slug":"jupiter-and-saturn-align-in-the-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/jupiter-and-saturn-align-in-the-night-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter and Saturn align in the night sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">And&#8230; no &#8220;end of the world&#8221; in sight. Once again, those who want to predict catastrophic events linked to astronomic events or &#8220;predictions&#8221; from the past (Mayan calendar, Nostradamus etc&#8230;) are proven wrong. Nobody can predict the future and celestial phenomena are totally meaningless. This &#8220;alignment&#8221; is only an &#8220;alignment &#8221; seen from earth, which is a meaningless planet in the infinite universe.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Jupiter and Saturn have crossed paths in the night sky, appearing to the naked eye as a &#8220;double planet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The timing of this conjunction, as the celestial event is known, has caused some to suggest it may have been the source of a bright light in the sky 2,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>That became known as the Star of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The planets have been moving closer together each night and reached their closest point on 21 December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-55364664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10159284615004345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: And&#8230; no &#8220;end of the world&#8221; in sight. Once again, those who want to predict catastrophic events linked to astronomic events or &#8220;predictions&#8221; from the past (Mayan calendar, Nostradamus etc&#8230;) are proven wrong. Nobody can predict the future and celestial phenomena are totally meaningless. This &#8220;alignment&#8221; is only an &#8220;alignment &#8221; seen from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":289548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}