Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel
(TWAN)
Explanation:
Saturn is the most
distant planet
of the Solar System
easily
visible
to the unaided eye.
With this extraordinary, long-term astro-imaging project begun in 1993,
you can follow the ringed gas giant for one Saturn year
as it wanders
once around the
ecliptic plane,
finishing a single orbit around the Sun by 2022.
Constructed from individual images made over 29 Earth years,
the split panorama is centered along the ecliptic
and crossed by the plane of our Milky Way galaxy.
Saturn's position in 1993 is at the right side, upper panel
in the constellation
Capricornus and progresses toward the left.
It returns to the spot in Capricornus
at left in the lower panel in 2022.
The consistent imaging shows Saturn appears slightly brighter during the years
2000-2005 and 2015-2019, periods when its beautiful rings were
tilted more face-on to planet Earth.
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 |
Yanvar' Fevral' Mart Aprel' Mai Iyun' Iyul' Avgust Sentyabr' Oktyabr' Noyabr' Dekabr' |
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
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