What Is Saturn? Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant, and the second largest and second most massive planet in our Solar System. It is famous for the ring-like structures that circle its equator. Saturn is one of the two gas giants in the Solar System, the other being Jupit
The latest view of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system — which looks like a phonograph record with grooves that represent detailed structure within the rings — and atmospheric details that once could only be captured by spacecraft visiting the distant world. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed Saturn on June 20, 2019, as the planet made its closest approach to Earth, at about 845 million miles away. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon , M.H.
This image is a composite of observations made of Saturn in early 2018 in the optical and of the auroras on Saturn’s north pole region, made in 2017. In contrast to the auroras on Earth the auroras on Saturn are mainly visible in the ultraviolet — a part of the electromagnetic spectrum blocked by Earth’s atmosphere — and therefore astronomers have to rely on space telescopes like the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study them. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, A. Simon and the OPAL Team, J.
Hubble has captured astonishing images of Saturn’s auroras in ultraviolet light, revealing auroral curtains of light that encircle Saturn’s north and south poles that rise more than a thousand miles above the cloudtops.When Saturn is tilted towards Earth, the planet gives Hubble a magnificent view of its bright icy structure. Hubble can resolve numerous ringlets and the fainter inner rings. Hubble can also observe changes taking place on the planet, including dynamic weather patterns.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was used to observe the planet on June 6, 2018, when Saturn was approximately 1.4 billion kilometers from Earth. Visible in this Hubble image are the classic rings as recorded by the very first astronomers to observe the planet with telescopes. From the outside in are the A ring with the Encke Gap, the Cassini Division, the B ring, and the C ring with the Maxwell Gap. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon and the OPAL Team, and J.
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