Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you’d probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They’re the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...

3.—SATURN'S RINGS AS THEY WOULD APPEAR TO AN OBSERVER ON THE PLANET, FIFTY DEGREES FROM THE EQUATOR. Hence we are justified in assuming that Saturn still hot and, to some extent, self-luminous.

Saturn presented the strange appearance of being entirely without rings, even when viewed in the most powerful of telescopes. No great catastrophe had happened on the distant, planet, nor had ...

The Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens finally put an end to the mystery of Saturn’s “appendages” by recognizing the true nature of the rings in 1655. Additional ring systems have been found ...

Do astronomers have any estimates of when Saturn's rings will disappear? Doug Kaupa Council Bluffs, Iowa All four of the solar system's giant planets have ring systems. The rings of Jupiter ...

The rings, influenced by Saturn's magnetic field, are gradually being pulled into the planet. The phenomenon of "ring rain" may lead to their disappearance in the future. Saturn, a gas giant with ...

I WRITE to call the attention of observers to the present appearance of the inner dusky ring of Saturn. Although the ... ring appeared on the face of the planet as if bounded by two fine parallel ...

If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you'd probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They're the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...

This image, one of 77 photographs that appeared in Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System, shows the diminutive moon Mimas transiting across Saturn's northern latitudes, with long shadows cast by ...