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  2. Rings of Saturn - Wikipedia

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    Detail of Galileo's drawing of Saturn in a letter to Belisario Vinta (1610). Galileo Galilei was the first to observe the rings of Saturn in 1610 using his telescope, but was unable to identify them as such.

  3. Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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    In 1610, Galileo also observed the planet Saturn, and at first mistook its rings for planets, [64] thinking it was a three-bodied system. When he observed the planet later, Saturn's rings were directly oriented to Earth, causing him to think that two of the bodies had disappeared.

  4. Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons

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    (unnamed moon of Saturn) S/2004 S 26 — Saturn LVIII: Eggther: S/2004 S 27 — Saturn LIX (unnamed moons of Saturn) S/2004 S 28 — — S/2004 S 29 — Saturn LX: Beli: S/2004 S 30 — Saturn LXI i: 12 December 2004 p: 8 October 2019 (unnamed moon of Saturn) S/2004 S 31 — — Gunnlod: S/2004 S 32 — Saturn LXII Thiazzi: S/2004 S 33 ...

  5. Discovery and exploration of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Christiaan Huygens followed on from Galileo's discoveries by discovering Saturn's moon Titan and the shape of the rings of Saturn. [14] Giovanni Domenico Cassini later discovered four more moons of Saturn and the Cassini division in Saturn's rings. [15] The Sun photographed through a telescope with special solar filter.

  6. Great mystery of Saturn’s Rings May Have Been Solved: New Study

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  7. The rings of Saturn are going to disappear in a few months ...

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    Saturn has the most spectacular ring system, with seven rings and several gaps and divisions between them. Few missions have visited Saturn: Pioneer 11 and Voyagers 1 and 2 flew by, but Cassini ...

  8. Timeline of Solar System astronomy - Wikipedia

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    1979 – Pioneer 11 flies by Saturn, providing the first ever closeup images of the planet and its rings. It discovers the planet's F ring and determines that its moon Titan has a thick atmosphere. [199] 1979 – Goldreich and Tremaine postulate that Saturn's F ring is maintained by shepherd moons, a prediction that would be confirmed by ...

  9. 20 new moons were discovered around Saturn - AOL

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    The new discovery increases the moons orbiting the "jewel of our solar system" to 82, surpassing Jupiter