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Get Images Library Photos and Pictures. Saturn Hubble Space Telescope Image Slide 51 of 100: No Earth-based telescope could ever capture a view quite like this. Earth-based views can only show Saturn's day lit side, from within about 25 degrees of Saturn's equatorial plane. A spacecraft in orbit, like Cassini, can capture stunning scenes that would be impossible from our home planet. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 25 degrees (if Saturn is dominant in image) above the ring plane. The image was taken in violet light with the Cassini spa...

. BEST VIEW OF SATURN - MAY 23 The planet will make its closest approach to Earth reflecting abundant sunlight and with the help of a medium telescope Saturn's rings and its brightest moons will be visible. NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) observed Saturn on 20 June 2019 as the planet made its closest approach to Earth this year, at approximately 1.36 billion km away. Saturn's trademark ring system is now tilted towards Earth, giving us a magnificent view of its bright icy structure. This image is the second in a yearly series of snapshots taken as part of the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project. (Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley)) The Ring Nebula (M57). The central ring of the Ring Nebula is about one light-year across and 2,000 light-years away. This image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA.

The Cassini spacecraft's onboard cameras acquired a panoramic mosaic of Saturn that allows scientists to see details in the rings as they are backlit by the sun. This image spans about 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) across.

The Cassini spacecraft's onboard cameras acquired a panoramic mosaic of Saturn that allows scientists to see details in the rings as they are backlit by the sun. This image spans about 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) across.

BEST VIEW OF SATURN - MAY 23 The planet will make its closest approach to Earth reflecting abundant sunlight and with the help of a medium telescope Saturn's rings and its brightest moons will be visible.

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Slide 51 of 100: No Earth-based telescope could ever capture a view quite like this. Earth-based views can only show Saturn's day lit side, from within about 25 degrees of Saturn's equatorial plane. A spacecraft in orbit, like Cassini, can capture stunning scenes that would be impossible from our home planet. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 25 degrees (if Saturn is dominant in image) above the ring plane. The image was taken in violet light with the Cassini spa...

"I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel." announced Galileo when Saturn's rings appeared to vanish in 1612. In fact, every 15 years Saturn's rings seem to almost disappear as viewed from the Earth. This happens just as the orbiting Earth crosses the plane of Saturn's rings. The edge on perspective temporarily robs astronomers of a spectacular sight, however, the ring plane crossing affords them the opportunity to measure the rings' thickness and search for undiscovered moons. In this image of Saturn, produced on May 22, 1995 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two of Saturn's known moons are visible as star like objects to the left of the planet.

Ultraviolet Saturn (NASA, Hubble, 2003)

Saturn eclipsing the sun, with the Earth visible in the upper left section of Saturn's rings

Saturn Hubble Space Telescope Image

Awesome view of 4.5 billion year old Saturn through an amateur telescope captured by Vanessa Angelina

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) observed Saturn on 20 June 2019 as the planet made its closest approach to Earth this year, at approximately 1.36 billion km away. Saturn's trademark ring system is now tilted towards Earth, giving us a magnificent view of its bright icy structure. This image is the second in a yearly series of snapshots taken as part of the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project. (Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley))

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft (orbiting around Saturn) and Hubble Space Telescope (orbiting around Earth), together provide a spectacular new UV view of Saturn's auroras around its north pole.

Streams of charged particles blasted from the sun collide with Saturn's magnetic field, creating an aurora on the planet's south pole.

The Ring Nebula (M57). The central ring of the Ring Nebula is about one light-year across and 2,000 light-years away. This image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA.

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Thom Allen prepares a telescope to view the "Great Conjunction" of Saturn and Jupiter, visible in the center of the image, in the West Desert on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Also dubbed the Christmas Star, the conjunction is the closest together the two planets have passed in Earth's sky in nearly 400 years. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News Thom Allen prepares a telescope to view the "Great Conjunction" of Saturn and Jupiter, visible in the center of the image, in the West Desert

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest 'brown dwarf' known.

Uranus in infrared light, captured by Hawaii's Keck Observatory. The moon Miranda is to the upper left of Uranus, and the moon Puck is a faint smudge to the upper right. The bright splotches on Uranus' disk are clouds.

NASA caption:  February 24, 2009, the Hubble Space Telescope took a photo of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. In this view, the giant orange moon Titan casts a large shadow onto Saturn's north polar hood. Below Titan, near the ring plane and to the left is the moon Mimas, casting a much smaller shadow onto Saturn's equatorial cloud tops. Farther to the left, and off Saturn's disk, are the bright moon Dione and the fainter moon Enceladus. These rare moon transits only happen when the tilt of Saturn's ring plane is nearly "edge on" as seen from the Earth. Saturn's rings will be perfectly edge on to our line of sight on August 10, 2009, and September 4, 2009. Unfortunately, Saturn will be too close to the sun to be seen by viewers on Earth at that time. This "ring plane crossing" occurs every 14-15 years. In 1995-96 Hubble witnessed the ring plane crossing event, as well as many moon transits, and even helped discover several new moons of Saturn. The banded structure in Saturn's atmosphere is similar to Jupiter's. Early 2009 was a favorable time for viewers with small telescopes to watch moon and shadow transits crossing the face of Saturn. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, crossed Saturn on four separate occasions: January 24, February 9, February 24, and March 12, although not all events were visible from all locations on Earth. These pictures were taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on February 24, 2009, when Saturn was at a distance of roughly 775 million miles (1.25 billion kilometers) from Earth. Hubble can see details as small as 190 miles (300 km) across on Saturn. The dark band running across the face of the planet slightly above the rings is the shadow of the rings cast on the planet.

This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, captured in 2015. Several places on the image, visible through the moon's hazy atmosphere, show more detail because those areas were acquired near closest approach. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho)