Posted in Astronomy at 20:30 on 30 May 2020
This appears to be an update – or at least a re-angled view – of a picture I posted before.
Astronomy Picture of the Day for 27/5/20, does however show Earth’s Moon better than the previous one:-
Posted in Astronomy at 20:00 on 22 March 2020
Glancing at the image on Astronomy Picture of the Day for 16/3/20 you’d be forgiven for thinking so.
But it’s not Saturn.
It’s the Moon with a cloud partially obscuring it.
Posted in Astronomy at 12:00 on 24 October 2019
I love photographs like this.
From Astronomy Picture of the Day for 17/10/19.
Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas and Rhea, not to mention an arc of Saturn’s rings almost end-on. Taken by the Cassini probe.
Posted in Astronomy at 20:00 on 15 October 2019
Wow. Just wow.
From Astronomy Picture of the Day for 12/10/19.
On the left the pale blue dot (Earth) as seen from Saturn. On the right Earth and Moon from Mercury.
Posted in Astronomy at 20:00 on 7 August 2019
Title of post only slightly changed from the original in Astronomy Picture of the Day for 3/8/19.
Saturn’s moon Mimas illuminated by light reflected from Saturn:-
Posted in Astronomy at 12:00 on 18 February 2018
From Astronomy Picture of the Day, for 15/2/18, another wonderful photograph from the Cassini mission to Saturn, this one showing the moon Enceladus outgassing plumes of ice.
At bottom right of middle just below the edge-on rings of Saturn can be seen the small moon Pandora.
Posted in Astronomy at 12:00 on 18 September 2017
A fine video – as shown in Astronomy Picture of the Day for 11/9/2017 and made by amalgamating individual pictures – of one of the Cassini probe’s passes through the Saturn system.
5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation – First 1 minute of footage from In Saturn's Rings from Stephen van Vuuren on Vimeo.
Posted in Astronomy at 10:00 on 23 April 2017
A stunning picture of Saturn’s rings backlit by the sun from yesterday‘s Astronomy Picture of the Day. And between them the spot of light is Earth with the tiny pinprick to its left, the Moon.
This is a view that would have been difficult to imagine seeing when I was a lad.
Posted in Astronomy at 19:40 on 13 March 2017
Nasa’s Cassini probe has produced an intriguing close-up view of Saturn’s moon Pan.
This photograph is today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Pan orbits inside the the Encke Gap of Saturn’s A-ring but is an odd object indeed.
Posted in Astronomy at 20:43 on 9 July 2015
Astronomy Picture of the Day was 20 years old on Jun 16th. It has been on a bit of a roll recently.
The Pinwheel Galaxy (Jun 14th):-
The Black Eye galaxy (Jun 18th):-
On 23rd Jun there was this star bubble round Sharpless 2-308:-
This is a picture of Zeta Ophiuchi (Jul 5th) which is travelling to the left at 24 kilometres per second thus causing the bow-shock in the interstellar dust as shown:-
The next day gave us this picture of clouds near Rho Ophiuchi
Then Jul 8th had this stunning scene of Dione, Saturn and Enceladus (Saturn is visible only as a faint arc and its rings are edge-on):-
Fly-over Ceres, Jun 10th, a composite of still pictures:-
It’s exciting times for NASA as New Horizons is getting very close to Pluto. See yesterday’s picture:-
Wonderful stuff.
