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There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...
Over time, scientists hope Hubble's continued observation of Saturn and its rings might help unravel the mystery of the spokes. An image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on Oct. 22, ...
A photo of Saturn taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850 million miles from Earth.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a newly revealed image of the mysterious, ghostly shadows on Saturn’s rings — the latest sighting of the so-called “spokes” that continue to baffle ...
Saturn’s famous rings don’t just give the planet its distinctive look — they also affect its weather. New research using the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the icy rings actually heat up ...
A Hubble near-ultraviolet image, obtained in 2017 during the Saturn summer in the northern hemisphere, is used as a reference to sketch the Lyman-alpha emission of the planet.
Though Saturn's unusual-looking "cup handle" features were first noted by Galileo in 1610, it would be another 45 years before they were described by Christiaan Huygens as a disk surrounding Saturn.
The Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped one of the most incredible photos of Saturn ever. The image was captured on July 4th and shows Saturn, its iconic rings, and two of Saturn’s many moons.
In an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, Saturn’s rings display an unexplained phenomenon that looks like spokes moving across its rings.
The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years. But it took the insight of a veteran astronomer to pull it all together within a year, using observations of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble ...
This composite photo, taken on Oct. 22, 2023, by the Hubble Space Telescope captured Saturn's mysterious ring spokes. Scientists still don't know what the spokes are.