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Two of the largest planets to perfectly align

ON THE night of December 21, two of the largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, are expected to line up perfectly. The last time this happened was 800 years ago.

Piet Strauss, the chairperson of the Durban Centre Division of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa, said there were five planets orbiting the sun that were visible with the naked eye – Mercury, Venus, Mars,

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