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Credit & Copyright: Mohammad Nouroozi
Explanation:
Saturn
is near opposition in planet Earth's sky.
Rising at sunset and shining brightly throughout the night,
it also lies near a line-of-sight to crowded starfields, nebulae,
and obscuring dust clouds
along the Milky Way.
Whitish Saturn is up and left of center in this gorgeous
central Milky Way skyscape, a two panel mosaic recorded
earlier this month.
You can find
the bright planet above the bowl of the dusty
Pipe nebula,
and just beyond the end of a
dark river to Antares,
alpha star of the constellation Scorpius.
For now the best views
of the ringed giant planet are from
the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft, though.
Diving close,
Cassini's Grand Finale orbit number 8
is in progress.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Saturn - Milky Way
Publications with words: Saturn - Milky Way
See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 8 Á Aurora around Saturns North Pole
- APOD: 2024 November 24 Á Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- APOD: 2024 November 5 Á Milky Way over Easter Island
- Saturn at Night
- APOD: 2024 August 27 Á Moon Eclipses Saturn
- APOD: 2024 August 4 Á Gaia: Here Comes the Sun
- APOD: 2024 July 29 Á Milky Way over Uluru