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A Raging Storm System on Saturn

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It is one of the largest and longest lived storms ever recorded in our Solar System. First seen late last year, the above cloud formation in the northern hemisphere of Saturn started larger than the Earth and soon spread completely around the planet. The storm has been tracked not only from Earth but from up [...]

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Saturn Shadows of a Seasonal Sundial

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Saturn's rings form one of the larger sundials known. This sundial, however, determines only the season of Saturn, not the time of day. In 2009, during Saturn's last equinox, Saturn's thin rings threw almost no shadows onto Saturn, since the ring plane pointed directly toward the Sun. As Saturn continued in its orbit around the [...]

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In the Shadow of Saturn

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In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours in 2006 and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected [...]

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Spiritually Speaking: How Much Do I Need to Spend to Get a Decent Telescope?

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Thanks Harry, I just want to see Mars, Jupiter, Maybe Saturn. I am not sure how much I want to invest since I cannot imagine it something I would want to do every week... I guess I will have to find out and see. Tags: Saturn, solar system, decent telescope, mars jupiter

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Scientists Say "Huge Changes Coming to Sun and Earth Over Next 7 Years"

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In this 2 hour radio program of Watchamns Cry, Nathan Leal talks with Benjamin Baruch about a report from a group of scientists who gave a report to him about the severe changes in our solar system, and mainly our sun and earth, and the predicted outcome of these changes within the next 7 years. [...]

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Exploring Our Backyard the Solar System - Part 2

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In this seventh episode of the Science@ESA vodcast series Rebecca Barnes continues to journey through the wonders of modern astronomy bringing us closer to home as we begin to explore the Solar System. We'll discover the scale and structure of the Solar System, find out why we explore it and introduce the European missions launched [...]

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Saturn Storm Panoramas

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These tantalizing panoramas follow a remarkable giant storm encircling the northern hemisphere of ringed planet Saturn. Still active, the roiling storm clouds were captured in near-infrared images recorded by the Cassini spacecraft on February 26 and stitched into the high resolution, false-color mosaics. Seen late last year as a prominent bright spot by amateur astronomers [...]

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Solar Eclipse & Cardinal Grand Cross 7/1/2011

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There will be a major astrological formation on July 1st, 2011 involving a Solar Eclipse (Sun and Moon) at 9 degrees Cancer. The eclipse will be one corner of a square, or Grand Cross, each corner in each of the four Cardinal signs. Cardinal energy is active energy and solar eclipses are event related. Opposing [...]

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Moons and Rings Before Saturn

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While cruising around Saturn, be on the lookout for picturesque juxtapositions of moons and rings. Another striking alignment occurred last March in the view of humanity's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft. Rhea, one of Saturn's larger moons, was caught passing Epimetheus, one of Saturn's smaller moons. Epimetheus, as pictured above, is actually well behind the heavily cratered [...]

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Encyclopaedia Astronomy Diagrams Shapes Saturn Jupiter

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Views From Cassini at Saturn

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What has the Cassini orbiter seen since arriving at Saturn? The above music video shows some of the highlights. In the first time-lapse sequence (00:07), a vertical line appears that is really Saturn's thin rings seen nearly edge-on. Soon some of Saturn's moon shoot past. The next sequence (00:11) features Saturn's unusually wavy F-ring that [...]

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Herschel Crater on Mimas of Saturn

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Why is this giant crater on Mimas oddly colored? Mimas, one of the smaller round moons of Saturn, sports Herschel crater, one of the larger impact craters in the entire Solar System. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn took the above image of Herschel crater in unprecedented detail while making a 10,000-kilometer record close [...]

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What Do You Find Most Interesting About Astronomy?

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What's you favorite cluster, nebula, sun, planet ect Why you like astronomy Me my favourite cluster is the butterfly cluster, crab nebula, Antares for the sun (: and Saturn is my favourite planet. I really like the large magellanic cloud. My favourite thing about astronomy is that it takes you back in time. Tags: Milky [...]

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Saturn's Moons Dione and Titan From Cassini

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What would it be like to see a sky with many moons? Such is the sky above Saturn. When appearing close to each other, moons will show a similar phase. A view with two of the more famous moons of Saturn in gibbous phase was captured last month by the robot spacecraft Cassini now orbiting [...]

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Encyclopaedia Britannica 1801 Astronomy Saturn Planets

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Prometheus Remastered

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What does Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus really look like? The raw images from the robotic Cassini spacecraft's January flyby of the small moon showed tantalizing clues on grainy images, but now that the Cassini team has digitally remastered these images, many more details have come out. Pictured above, Prometheus more clearly shows its oblong shape [...]

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Saturn's Moon Helene From Cassini

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What's happening on the surface of Saturn's moon Helene? The moon was imaged in unprecedented detail last week as the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn swooped to within two Earth diameters of the diminutive moon. Although conventional craters and hills appear, the above raw and unprocessed image also shows terrain that appears unusually smooth and [...]

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Cassini Approaches Saturn

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What would it look like to approach Saturn in a spaceship? One doesn't have to just imagine -- the Cassini spacecraft did just this in 2004, recording thousands of images along the way, and thousands more since entering orbit. Recently, some of these images have been digitally tweaked, cropped, and compiled into the above inspiring [...]

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An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturn's Calypso

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Why is this moon of Saturn so smooth? This past weekend, humanity's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft passed as close to Saturn's small moon Calypso as it ever has, and imaged the small moon in unprecedented detail. Pictured above is an early return, raw, unprocessed image of the 20-km long irregularly shaped moon. Like its sister moon [...]

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Titan, Rings, and Saturn From Cassini

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How thin are the rings of Saturn? Brightness measurements from different angles have shown Saturn's rings to be about one kilometer thick, making them many times thinner, in relative proportion, than a razor blade. This thinness sometimes appears in dramatic fashion during an image taken nearly along the ring plane. The robot Cassini spacecraft now [...]

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