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Neptune and Saturn are two Moon-widths apart all month, while the morning sky hosts Venus and Uranus together in Taurus.
Visible in the early-morning sky today, Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus reaches superior conjunction just 1.4′ due south of Saturn. The proximity makes the now-11th-magnitude moon easier to find, as ...
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, casts its shadow across the gas giant in a series of rare shadow transits. This unique ...
There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...
The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, ...
A mere decade ago, astronomers knew of just 62 moons around Saturn. Astronomer Edward Ashton is no exception, even though he has helped to discover 192 of them—he thinks that’s the total ...
With 128 new moons for Saturn, it might take a while to come up with names that follow the IAU rules. Maybe we’ll even see the addition of different mythologies.
He fell into hunting for Saturn’s moons in 2018, when his then academic adviser suggested the project for his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. It has been a fruitful search.
A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds habitable ...