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Saturn's Rings Will Temporarily Disappear From View in 2025 (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[–] ConfusedMeAgain@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Fascinating. Never knew this was a thing.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year 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?

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

very amusing. Thank you for posting op

[–] catacomb@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year 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.