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Saturn's Rings Will Temporarily Disappear From View in 2025

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨astronomy@mander.xyz⁩

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/saturns-rings-will-disappear-from-view-in-2025-but-its-only-temporary-180983244/

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  • ConfusedMeAgain@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fascinating. Never knew this was a thing.

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  • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    very amusing. Thank you for posting op

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll have to try the telescope! It’s not very powerful, but I know I’m on Saturn because it’s a clearly oblate blob. At that time, it’ll be a round blob?

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  • catacomb@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep! They go through a phase of being edge-on so become incredibly flat from our perspective. That also means there’s a peak where the rings are most visible which will be in 2032.

    There’s a lot of good books out there with these phases detailed as well as guides for other planets. Highly recommend it for anyone getting into astronomy.

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