saturn Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/saturn/ Astronomy author and speaker Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:55:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png saturn Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/saturn/ 32 32 166732936 Cassini spies tiny moon Epimetheus next to Saturn’s rings https://www.colinstuart.net/cassini-spies-tiny-moon-epimetheus-next-to-saturns-rings/ https://www.colinstuart.net/cassini-spies-tiny-moon-epimetheus-next-to-saturns-rings/#respond Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:55:32 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1825 Saturn is a lot of people’s favourite planet due to its resplendent rings. Some of those rings – made of house-sized chunks of ice – have recently been snapped by the Cassini space probe alongside the planet’s diminutive moon Epimetheus (just 113 kilometres across). Released today, but taken on December 5, 2014, Cassini was 2 million kilometres […]

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]]> https://www.colinstuart.net/cassini-spies-tiny-moon-epimetheus-next-to-saturns-rings/feed/ 0 1825 First ring system found beyond solar system may hide exomoons https://www.colinstuart.net/first-ring-system-found-beyond-solar-system-may-hide-exomoons/ https://www.colinstuart.net/first-ring-system-found-beyond-solar-system-may-hide-exomoons/#respond Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:14:13 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1800 Back in 2012, astronomers uncovered the first ring system in another solar system. Now they have released details of its dimensions and possible evidence of alien moons nestled within. The rings encircle the planet J1407b. As the planet orbits its star, its set of more than 30 rings periodically blocks out some of the star’s light. Such […]

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