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Look closely.  We're the little dot.  Photo taken July 19 2013 by the Cassini probe.   People were waving!  Really:  http://www.newsc...

One of the rewards of being an amateur astronomer is that from time to time you get to discover on your own astronomical facts that were act...

Good times for astronomy in Northern Virginia. The temperature is freakishly high, and daylight savings time has pushed the darkness into m...

(Photo from NASA, text from New Scientist) A study in contrasts, this photo captures three illuminated moons as a darkened Saturn looms in ...

These are real images from the Huygens probe. And the sound is apparently from the radio signals generated by Saturn. I agree -- it sounds ...

There is a big and very unusual storm on Saturn right now. You can see it in the image above. It was taken by amateur astronomer Jim Philli...

After a long spell of looking almost exclusively at Jupiter and our Moon, I was very pleased to see that Saturn is now visible. It is up in...

Now for some real DX. The Cassini probe is exploring the moons of Saturn. Above you see a picture of the planet in eclipse -- the sun is...