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Even if you don’t have a decent telescope or a powerful pair of binoculars, you’ll still have a chance to see Saturn in the night sky this week. The best chance to see Saturn this year in SC ...
The moon can appear blue when there are particles in the air that are of the right size (one micron wide) to filter out red light, says NASA. It takes a volcanic event, such as the 1883 eruption ...
Jupiter and Saturn have been prominent features in the night sky all year long, but shortly after the first sunset of winter, the pair will join forces to shine incredibly bright for just a few ...
The phenomenon is somewhat periodic at 28.5-year intervals, when Saturn's northern hemisphere tilts most toward the sun. Usually this is during the solar longitude of around 90-180°, only the 2010 GWS was ahead of its time shortly after equinox. The following is a list of recorded sightings. Six events are recognized as Great White Spots. [5
Great conjunctions attracted considerable attention in the past as omens. During the late Middle Ages and Renaissance they were a topic broached by the pre-scientific and transitional astronomer-astrologers of the period up to the time of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, by scholastic thinkers such as Roger Bacon [3] and Pierre d'Ailly, [4] and they are mentioned in popular and literary works ...
Quadruple Saturn–moon transit captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Study of Saturn's moons has also been aided by advances in telescope instrumentation, primarily the introduction of digital charge-coupled devices which replaced photographic plates. For the 20th century, Phoebe stood alone among Saturn's known moons with its highly ...
In this view, the giant orange moon Titan casts a large shadow onto Saturn’s north polar hood. Below Titan, near the ring plane and to the left is the moon Mimas, casting a much smaller shadow onto Saturn’s equatorial cloud tops. Farther to the left, and off Saturn’s disk, is the bright moom Dione, and the fainter moon Enceledus.
Now that the sun is officially at the height of its 11-year cycle, the increase in solar activity will more frequently fuel "space weather" that produces the right conditions for northern lights ...