New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
Saturn stunned skywatchers on 23 November when its iconic rings seemed to vanish, leaving the planet looking strangely bare.
About 400 years ago, astronomers observing Saturn through telescopes were baffled when its rings seemed to vanish.
A rare alignment between Earth and Saturn will make the gas giant’s rings appear so thin that they’ll be nearly invisible.
Saturn’s rings appeared to disappear on November 23 due to a rare optical illusion. The phenomenon, which occurs every 13 to 15 years, happens when the rings line up perfectly edge-on with our planet.
During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with ...
The debris from this event created Saturn’s signature rings. It is possible that other gas giants like Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also had rings once ...
Skywatchers in India and across the globe are set for a rare celestial event as Saturn's iconic rings will seemingly vanish ...
Earlier this year, a team of astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus that is minuscule, with a diameter of about 10km.
Saturn's rings will appear to have disappeared if you catch a glimpse of the planet through the eyepiece of a telescope on ...
As twilight deepens the week of November 24 to 28, the waxing crescent moon appears in the south to southwest, above the setting Teapot asterism.