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September will be the best month to view Saturn, as the planet will reach its peak brightness around Sunday, Sept. 8, when it is in opposition. During 'Super Harvest Moon Eclipse' to be summer's ...
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.
Saturn has a fresh new look thanks to NASA’s Webb Space Telescope. Three of Saturn’s many moons also got caught on camera. Scientists are thrilled with this latest shot, which captures Saturn ...
Saturn's Hexagon Comes to Light, APOD January 22, 2012; In the Center of Saturn's North Polar Vortex, Astronomy Picture of the Day – December 4, 2012; Video of hexagon's rotation from NASA; NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon (December 4, 2013) Animated vortex view (TPS) Hexagon image; Saturn's Hexagon Replicated In ...
Stargazing Live is a British live television programme on astronomy that was broadcast yearly on BBC Two over three nights every winter from 2011 to 2017. The series was primarily presented by scientist Brian Cox and comedian and amateur astronomer Dara Ó Briain with support from TV presenter and biochemist Liz Bonnin and astronomer Mark Thompson.
View of Saturn from Cassini, taken in March 2004, shortly before the spacecraft's orbital insertion in July 2004. This article provides a timeline of the Cassini–Huygens mission (commonly called Cassini). Cassini was a collaboration between the United States' NASA, the European Space Agency ("ESA"), and the Italian Space Agency ("ASI") to send a probe to study the Saturnian system, including ...
"The two giant planets will appear just a 10th of a degree apart - that's about the thickness of a dime held at arm's length," NASA explained. Get your telescope ready: Jupiter, Saturn to shine ...
Four Great Observatories. NASA's series of Great Observatories satellites are four large, powerful space-based astronomical telescopes launched between 1990 and 2003. They were built with different technology to examine specific wavelength/energy regions of the electromagnetic spectrum: gamma rays, X-rays, visible and ultraviolet light, and infrared light.