This Sunday 1 and Monday 2 August, Saturn It will be in opposition, which means that planet Earth will be located between the ringed planet and the Sun. This is the time when the exoplanet will be the brightest, making the night sky bright.

Gateway said that once Venus sinks below the horizon after sunset, Jupiter will be the brightest object in the sky. EarthSky. To find Saturn, see west of Jupiter.

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If you want to take a look at Saturn’s famous rings, you’ll have to take out a telescope, according to Farmer’s Almanac Portal.

“From Sunday night through Monday morning, most of the Midwest and parts of western California will see mostly clear skies,” said CNN meteorologist Haley Brink.

“There will be a strip of cloudy sky across the northwest towards The Rocky Mountains (a mountain range in North America)And across many southern states and to the northeast.”

Saturn, a world of rings and moons

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun, and it will take nine planets earth To cover the diameter of the gaseous planet, according to NASA, this does not include the rings.

People in ancient times saw that ‘gold star’ that moved among the fixed stars. They did not see their rings until after astronomers began using telescopes in the 17th century.

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In the 1950s, astronomers said Saturn had three rings, but in the 20th century, spacecraft showed much more detail. They revealed that Saturn actually contains thousands of thin, finely detailed rings made of tiny bits of ice.

Saturn also has at least 62 moons with confirmed orbits. Only 53 of Saturn’s moons have been named, and only 13 have diameters greater than 50 kilometers.