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"The Rings Held The Answer": How We Finally Figured Out Saturn's Day Length In 2019
Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...
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Webb’s Mid-Infrared Breakthrough Unveils Young Saturn-Mass Exoplanet Sculpting Its Own Debris Disk
How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...
Webb Captures First Direct Image of Alien Planet Carving Cosmic Rings
James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...
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The brightest planets in July's night sky: How to see them (and when)
Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...
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July 2025: What’s in the sky this month? Venus tracks through Taurus, more Titan transits at Saturn, and Jupiter reappears
Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...
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Newly identified planet is a rare 'miniature Saturn' orbiting a red dwarf
Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...
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July full moon 2025: The Buck Moon joins Mars and Saturn
The Buck Moon rises on July 10. The full moon of July, also called the Buck Moon, will rise on July 10.
NASA captures unprecedented image of 'lightest planet ever seen'
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted TWA 7b, a Saturn-sized exoplanet around a nearby star ...
Webb telescope smashed a record with the planet it just discovered
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...
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The Sky Today on Tuesday, July 1: See Iapetus near Saturn
Visible in the early-morning sky today, Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus reaches superior conjunction just 1.4′ due south of Saturn. The proximity makes the now-11th-magnitude moon easier to find, as ...