[Editors Note: In honor of NASA’s last shuttle launch, this week’s photos of the day will be themed: Space.]
A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to catch a local astronomy club setting up telescopes at a nearby park. We hung around long enough for dark and low and behold we were rewarded with images that I thought I’d only ever see on a computer. That night we were fortunate enough to see the moon magnified to such a degree that the craters were clearly distinguishable. The telescope they had trained on Saturn magnified the planet enough to see rings, but not anything like what NASA has taken below.
The image below is actually simulated to enhance the rings with color, showing the differences in particles based on radio signals sent from the Cassini spacecraft.
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL
absolutely gorgeous!!
We thought so too! The space photos NASA has on their website are really incredible!
We saw Saturn through a powerful telescope in New Zealand and still can’t believe it…was unreal – and amazing!