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syzygy
Sign in to saveAlso known as syzygies (astronomy), alignment of celestial bodies, three-body alignment
straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in astronomy
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- configuration
- Part of
- conjunction
- Has part
- astronomical object
- Named after
- Syzygium
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- Commons category
- Syzygy (astronomy)
- has characteristic
- collinearity
- has effect
- tide
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- different from
- conjunction
- property constraint
- structure
- facet of
- celestial mechanics
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Encyclopedic overview
A syzygy occurs during eclipses (numbers 1, 2, 3, 4).
In astronomy, a syzygy (/ˈsɪzədʒi/ SIZ-ə-jee; from Ancient Greek συζυγία (suzugía) 'union, yoking', expressing the sense of σύν (syn- "together") and ζυγ- (zug- "a yoke")) is a roughly straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “syzygy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.