The images were taken by Cassini spacecraft camera at a distance of approximately 1.7 million km from Saturn. Saturn's atmosphere is fast-moving and turbulent with wind speeds of 1,800 km/hr in ...

In fact, it's the closest any spacecraft has ever come to Saturn — just 1,900 miles from the beautiful planet's cloud tops. Even more exciting, Cassini has already transmitted images of what it ...

So sensitive to light is Webb that it had to be pointed at only tiny parts of Saturn at any one time to prevent its detectors from being overwhelmed. The resulting images are therefore overlaid ...

she drew and painted the images that only people with access to a telescope could see. Clockwise from top right: a crescent moon, the phases of Venus, the rings of Saturn (which had not yet been ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night sky, but it will reach its annual opposition on September 7-8, 2024.

This is a good opportunity to get a feeling for just how fast the Moon is moving through night sky. Look each hour and you'll ...

Oct. 25, 2024 — A new study has revealed that methane gas may be trapped within the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan, forming a distinct crust up to six miles thick, which warms the underlying ...

whereas Saturn's banded appearance is more readily apparent at wavelengths sensing the troposphere. The spatial resolution of the images gets worse at longer wavelengths due to diffraction.

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO 14 is a Trojan asteroid of Saturn ... found to appear in prior images where its position could ...

Montage of JWST MIRI/MRS observations of Saturn in November 2022, requiring four tiles to study Saturn’s northern hemisphere and rings. MIRI is sensitive primarily to temperature; Saturn’s ...

By popular request, some astrological notes on the USA election. Caveats: I don’t like making political ‘predictions’ and ...

Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Solstice is one of two the seller is ... A lot more parts bin dumpster diving was involved in ...