The thin crescent moon will meet up with the solar system’s second-largest planet, Saturn for the first time in 2024 on Sunday (Jan. 14), during a close approach between the two celestial bodies. At the same time, the 3-day-old moon will move into an astronomical arrangement with Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, called a conjunction — which refers to the fact that the two bodies will have the same right ascension, or celestial equivalent of longitude. During the close approach, the moon, which is just leaving its totally…
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