Fact of the Day for Tuesday 12 November
A syzygy (pronounced sizz-i-jee) occurs when three celestial bodies are in alignment. If you say a planet is in syzygy with the earth and sun, you mean that the sun, the planet, and the earth are in a straight or almost straight line.
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