Saturn, the second-largest planet in the solar system, features a large number of rings, some of which usually experience a brief “night,” lasting from six to 14 hours. At times, however, the entire ring system is engulfed by shadows, when the planet reaches its equinox. This happens once every 15 Earth y... |
24 October 2009
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Ever since the 17th century, when Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered that Saturn had rings around it, astronomers and astrophysicists have been trying to come up with a plausible explanation for how they were formed and why. To this day, the answer has eluded them, and each new scientific find about the pl... |
24 August 2009
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According to mission controllers for the Cassini spacecraft, a new object has been found lurking in one of Saturn's rings. The elusive body has thus far not been discovered because of the angles at which the probe moved around the planet, and also because the conditions were right for these types of observations... |
10 August 2009
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A planet roughly the size of Mars is on a collision course with the Earth. Eventually, the two planets collide and the Moon and the Earth are created in the outcome. Or at least that's what the Moon formation model says that happened some 4.5 billion years ago. But there is something missing. The Moon is here, t... |
6 May 2008
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Saturn's rings are one of its most distinct features, and although other planets in the solar system present rings of particles, they are not so obvious. They where first predicted to exist in the middle of the 17th century by Christian Huygens and viewed for the first time by Galileo Galilei with his telescope.... |
13 December 2007
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