Entries from Royal Observatory, Greenwich tagged with 'Saturn'
NASA extends Cassini-Huygens mission
NASA announced on 3 February that it is extending the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017, with a budget of $60 million per year.This is the second extension to the mission which was originally launched...
Two conjunctions and a meteor shower
Two planetary conjunctions involving Saturn are visible from the UK this month. However, they will be very low in the eastern pre-dawn sky and there won't be much time to observe them before it gets too light to see them easily...
NASA find huge new ring round Saturn
NASA's infra-red Spitzer Space Telescope has identified a vast, diffuse and all-but invisible new ring around Saturn, tilted at 27º from the main ring plane. The discovery was announced on 6 October 2009. The huge disk of material starts about...
The night sky for February 2009
The image above shows the skies above Greenwich around 10pm on the 15th February, taken from Edwin Dunkin's 'The Midnight Sky'. This view is facing south with the Royal Observatory in the centre. The wonderful constellation of Orion dominates...
Cassini flies just 30 miles over Enceladus
Cassini has just flew past Enceladus...
The Sky Tonight - July 2008
The sky tonight for July, 2008
The Sky Tonight - June, 2008
The sky in June
The Sky Tonight - May 2008
Highlights of the Night Sky for May
The Sky Tonight - April 2008
Sky highlights for April 2008
Cassini skims the ice plumes on Enceladus
The Cassini spacecraft performed a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, passing within 50km of the surface at closest approach. Scientists are particularly interested to learn more about the icy plumes, rising from the south pole of Enceladus,...
Are there rings around Saturn's moon Rhea?
Artist's impression of rings around Rhea Credit: NASA/JPL The Cassini spacecraft has detected what may be evidence for rings around Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time that rings have been found around a planet's moon....
The night sky for February 2008
A brief guide to what you can see in February's night sky
The sky tonight for January 2008
January's night sky
December's Night Sky
We have very long nights in the northern hemisphere during December – perfect for astronomy! Here in Greenwich, the sun is setting at 4pm in the afternoon and not rising again until 8am – giving 16 hours when the Sun...
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