Saturn’s Big Show #Space Saturday

For those of you who are into rings, or Saturn, or Saturn’s rings, Sunday, August 14th will be a big deal. Unless the full moon gets in the way. But don’t worry, Saturn’s got an angle on that. Here’s more from NASA:

The best thing about opposition this year is that Saturn will be visible all night long, said Caleb Fassett, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “That gives stargazers a good, long chance to find and observe it,” he said.

And despite the light-clutter from the Moon, all may not be lost. The rings of Saturn will face Earth at a 13-degree angle to our line of sight. And though Saturn is much farther from the Sun than our planet – an average 886 million miles out, compared to 94.4 million for Earth – a unique phenomenon may lend it even greater brightness during opposition.

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