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  2. Rings of Saturn - Wikipedia

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    Galileo Galilei – the first person to observe Saturn's rings, in 1610; Christiaan Huygens – the first to propose that there was a ring surrounding Saturn, in 1655; Giovanni Cassini – discovered the separation between the A and B rings (the Cassini Division), in 1675

  3. Rings of Rhea - Wikipedia

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    An artist's impression of Rhea's rings. The density of the particles is exaggerated greatly to aid visibility. [1] Rhea, the second-largest moon of Saturn, may have a tenuous ring system consisting of three narrow, relatively dense bands within a particulate disk. This would be the first discovery of rings around a moon.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Saturn's rings will disappear from view of ground-based ... - AOL

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    Saturn’s rings are seen as viewed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which obtained the images that comprise this mosaic at a distance of approximately 450,000 miles from Saturn April 25, 2007.

  7. Christiaan Huygens - Wikipedia

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    He discovered Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, and was the first to explain Saturn's strange appearance as due to "a thin, flat ring, nowhere touching, and inclined to the ecliptic." [10] In 1662 Huygens developed what is now called the Huygenian eyepiece, a telescope with two lenses to diminish the amount of dispersion. [11]

  8. Hubble telescope spies mysterious shadows on Saturn’s rings

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    In an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, Saturn’s rings display an unexplained phenomenon that looks like spokes moving across its rings.

  9. Pallene (moon) - Wikipedia

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    Back-illuminated rings of Saturn as seen by Cassini on 15 September 2006. The faint Pallene ring is visible at the bottom left as indicated. In 2006, images taken in forward-scattered light by the Cassini spacecraft enabled the Cassini Imaging Team to discover a faint dust ring around Saturn that shares Pallene's orbit, now named the Pallene Ring.