This composite image shows the Saturn Lyman-alpha bulge, an emission from hydrogen which is a persistent and unexpected excess detected by three distinct NASA missions, namely Voyager 1 ...
Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows ...
Webb also observed Saturn’s north pole, which will soon become invisible to as they enter a long polar winter. In the main image, above, the blue region denotes warm temperatures, with a massive ...
The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.
When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...
During Saturn's opposition this year the ringed planet through a telescope will look something like ... [+] the image at the lower-left of this composite from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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 ...
and Saturn itself. The image above, taken by Cassini in August, 2013, is a silhouette with the sun located behind the planet. You get a breathtaking look at the rings and their shadow across the ...