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awesomewonder posted: A few months ago I pledged to myself to learn one new thing a day and today I did just that. The word syzygy came up in my letters, I was trying to make a word with no vowels go figure Anyway I looked up words with no vowels and this came up syzygy. The Definition for the word is used in Astronomy Syzygy occurs when three celestial bodies within the Solar System are situated along a straight or nearly straight line. The wordsyzygy is Greek for Yoked Together. People generally use the term in context of the sun, the Earth, and either the moon or planets. Solar and Lunar eclipse are dramatic results of Syzygy.Often people use the word to describe interesting configurations of planets. Did you know that in 1982 this Syzygy occurred when all nine planets aligned on the same side of the sun.Did you ever know...
