I WRITE to call the attention of observers to the present appearance of the inner dusky ring of Saturn. Although the ring is not very open, only permitting that portion near the ends to be seen on ...
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 ...
l.-SATURN AND ITS RINGS, AS DRAWN IN 1894 BY LEO BRENNER, DIRECTOR OF THE MANORA OBSERVATORY AT LUSSINPICCOLO. 1. Encke's line. 2. Casf.lini's division. 3. The gauze or crape ring. correctly as ...
The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Jupiter: This planet has a faint ring system composed ...
This effect is due to the fact that the ring system of Saturn is tilted to the planet’s orbital plane, in much the same way as the Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted to our orbital plane.
A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...