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  2. Great conjunction - Wikipedia

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    The closest separation occurred on 21 December at 18:20 UTC, [11] when Jupiter was 0.1° south of Saturn and 30° east of the Sun. This meant both planets appeared together in the field of view of most small- and medium-sized telescopes (though they were distinguishable from each other without optical aid). [24]

  3. Saturn - Wikipedia

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    Amateur telescopic view of Saturn. Saturn is the most distant of the five planets easily visible to the naked eye from Earth, the other four being Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. (Uranus, and occasionally 4 Vesta, are visible to the naked eye in dark skies.) Saturn appears to the naked eye in the night sky as a bright, yellowish point of light.

  4. Saturn's rings will disappear from view of ground-based ... - AOL

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    For the past few months, Saturn's rings have been appearing thinner and thinner to those using ground telescopes. By March 2025, the rings will disappear entirely from view, according to Earth Sky ...

  5. Great White Spot - Wikipedia

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    The Great White Spot, also known as Great White Oval (named by analogy to Jupiter's Great Red Spot) is a series of periodic storms on the planet Saturn that are large enough to be visible from Earth by telescope by their characteristic white appearance. The spots can be several thousands of kilometers wide.

  6. Jupiter and Saturn will be the closest they’ve been in 800 ...

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    The holiday season holds a special gift, as skygazers on Earth will be treated to a great conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn. Using binoculars or a backyard telescope, it will not only ...

  7. Galilean moons - Wikipedia

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    Io (Jupiter I) is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter; with a diameter of 3642 kilometers, it is the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System, and is only marginally larger than Earth's moon. It was named after Io, a priestess of Hera who became one of the lovers of Zeus. It was referred to as "Jupiter I", or "The first satellite ...

  8. Saturn’s rings shine in new Webb telescope photo - AOL

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    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first near-infrared observation of Saturn, highlighting details in the planet’s atmosphere and rings. Saturn’s rings shine in new Webb ...

  9. Saturn's hexagon - Wikipedia

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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.