NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC)/OPAL Workforce
ONE of my favorite stargazing recollections is the primary time I seen the rings of Saturn by means of a telescope. The planet, with its iconic form, got here into focus earlier than my eyes, and I used to be taking a look at it in actual time.
In actuality, what I used to be seeing was simply over an hour up to now, as mild from Saturn takes over an hour to achieve us on Earth.
This was a couple of years in the past, however even to at the present time I really feel a way of awe when trying on the gasoline giants Jupiter and Saturn by means of binoculars or a telescope.
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