To celebrate Saturn reaching opposition in the sky this weekend, the animator known as yeti dynamics posted video of what it would look like if the ringed planet had a close encounter with Earth.
Astonished astronomers said Wednesday they had found rings around an asteroid, the smallest object known to have this feature and only the fifth after Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
PARIS — Imagine being caught in a thunderstorm as wide as the Earth with discharges of lightning 10,000 times more powerful than normal, flashing 10 times per second at its peak.
A whirlwind the size of Europe lashed Saturn for five years, becoming the longest-lasting cyclone ever seen on the Solar System's great planets, scientists reported Wednesday.
