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Saturn imaged in 2021 through a 6" telescope, dimly showing the polar hexagon. Saturn's polar hexagon was discovered by David Godfrey in 1987 [14] from piecing together fly-by views from the 1981 Voyager mission, [15] [16] and was revisited in 2006 by the Cassini mission.
When Edmund Scientific introduced the telescope in 1976 they called it "The Edmund Wide-Field Telescope" with a Part Number "2001" [5] Edmund had a public contest which ran until November 15, 1976, to come up with a name. [6] The winning name was "Astroscan 2001". The "2001" part of the name was dropped over time.
Saturn is surpassed by the numbers by one and a half degrees." Using modern computer programs, Gingerich discovered that, at the time of the conjunction, Saturn indeed lagged behind the tables by a degree and a half and Mars led the predictions by nearly two degrees.
Saturn’s rings are seen as viewed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which obtained the images that comprise this mosaic at a distance of approximately 450,000 miles from Saturn April 25, 2007.
The atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan was discovered by Kuiper while working at the Yerkes Observatory—a moon that would later be visited by Voyager 1 and also the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft. By 1905, the largest telescope in the World was the Harvard 60-inch Reflector ( 1.524 m 60″) at Harvard College Observatory, USA. [72]
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Saturn system – Rings and Titan from Arecibo Observatory. Mapping of Titan's surface and observations of other moons from the Cassini spacecraft. [62] As Venus, Titan also possesses an opaque atmosphere. By 2018, there have been radar observations of 138 main belt asteroids, 789 near-Earth asteroids, and 20 comets, including 73P/Schwassmann ...
HANOI (Reuters) -Chinese online retailers Temu and Shein have suspended their operations in Vietnam as the companies work to register their e-commerce services with the Southeast Asian nation's ...