November 1–2, 2025 | The Moon, Saturn & Neptune Conjunction As the first nights of November arrive, the Moon, Saturn, and Neptune gather in a rare and graceful sky encounter. Watch as the waxing gibbous Moon glides past golden Saturn and icy blue Neptune three worlds painting a cosmic tableau above the mountains and Milky Way. What makes it special? Three vastly different realms our cratered neighbor, Saturn the distant ring-giant, and Neptune the farthest major planet appear together in a singl

Saturn and its army of moons 🪐 ❗Saturn has 83 natural satellites that vary in size, shape, and composition. ⌛ It takes some of them half an Earth day to complete the orbit around Saturn, while others take about four Earth years to travel once around the planet. 24 of Saturn's moons are regular satellites, including 7 major satellites. They have prograde orbits not greatly inclined to Saturn's equatorial plane. The remaining 59 are irregular satellites, whose orbits are much farther from #Saturn

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🗓 On March 25, 1655, Saturn's moon Titan was discovered by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens (a name that you've probably heard mispronounced as "Hoy-gens"). Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and it was the first of 62 moons to be found orbiting Saturn. Huygens discovered Titan using a telescope he designed himself. While looking at Saturn's rings, he noticed a bright and tiny dot nearby. He suspected it was a moon, but just to be sure, he kept watching it for a few days. He confirmed th