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James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have captured compelling evidence of a planet with a mass similar to ...
Astronomers continue to expand the opportunities of discovery using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and the recent findings of a possible Saturn twin is another first for the powerful instrument.
NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2, which reached the planet in 1981, snapped nearly 16,000 images of Saturn, its rings and its moons.
Scientists say that Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain due to the gas giant's intense gravity. Saturn's rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids or moons.
MARTIN: Faherty says Saturn is the most distant planet that we can see with the naked eye, and its proximity to Earth is technically called Saturn in opposition.