The ac companying illustration gives a reproduction of one of the most, marvelous photographs of modern astron omy, Keeler's spectrum of Saturn's rings, with the spectrum of the moon above and ...

Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

On April 9, 1895, with the help of spectroscopic studies of the rings of Saturn, Keeler was able to prove that they were composed of tiny meteoric particles. While the question of when and how ...

Five of Saturn's moons are so-called shepherd moons, whose mass clears out their orbit by shoving away debris in their path, creating a gap between rings. As they skim past the edges of the gaps ...

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Saturn’s iconic rings will temporarily vanish from view this weekend due to a rare astronomical alignment known as a ring plane crossing. The phenomenon, which occurs roughly every 13 to 15 ...