Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who goes by cosmic_background on Instagram, captured an unreal photo of Saturn over the weekend. McCarthy says he captured the image from the roof of a parking ...
That's because the distance between Earth and Saturn is at its minimum during opposition—around 814 million miles. During Saturn's opposition this year the ringed planet through a telescope will ...
(Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via ... s between the sun and the planet. Saturn is therefore as close, as bright and as fully lit as it ever gets during Earth’s year.