Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...
When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...
Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.
People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...
With its huge rings of ice and dust, Saturn is one of the Solar System's most iconic planets. It's beautiful, really. But what's it hiding behind those bright clouds? Well, you're about to find out by ...
In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the Moon as it closely passes the Ringed Planet on the evening of ...
Even on other nights, when Saturn isn’t so deep in the moon’s glare, the planet, at magnitude +0.8 to +0.9 will look fainter ...
What an autumn it’s been for stargazing all around the world. Between the frequent Aurora and Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and all ...
the present edge-on alignment of the rings can only occur once every 15 years. Next March the Earth will also pass through the plane of Saturn’s ring system. At that time, for a few days ...
Tumultuous Migration on the Edge of the Hot Neptune Desert Jan ... captured the clearest view of this distant planet's rings in ... Saturn's Rings and Tilt Could Be the Product of an Ancient ...