{"id":158576,"date":"2025-11-25T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158576\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:47:10","slug":"this-week-in-astronomy-with-dave-eicher-saturn-and-its-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158576\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: Saturn and its rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tBack to Article List\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow\u2019s the time to see the rings of Saturn nearly edge-on.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Saturn.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tconverted PNM file\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Dave Eicher, Editor Emeritus of *Astronomy* magazine, encourages observers to locate Saturn, the solar system&#8217;s sixth planet, in the evening sky.<br \/>\nDuring this observational period, Saturn&#8217;s typically prominent rings are positioned nearly edge-on relative to Earth&#8217;s line of sight.<br \/>\nThis specific edge-on presentation of Saturn&#8217;s ring system is identified as an infrequent celestial event.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode,\u00a0Astronomy\u00a0magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening and observe the sixth planet in our solar system, Saturn. Point any size telescope at it, and you might think something\u2019s missing. The rings, usually the planet\u2019s standout feature, are nearly edge-on to our line of sight. This doesn\u2019t happen often, so go take a look. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back to Article List Now\u2019s the time to see the rings of Saturn nearly edge-on. converted PNM file&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247,89095],"class_list":{"0":"post-158576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-this-week-in-astronomy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}