{"id":675544,"date":"2026-11-05T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675544\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:12:10","slug":"apod-2026-november-5-enceladus-in-silhouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675544\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 November 5 \u2013 Enceladus in Silhouette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: One of our Solar System&#8217;s most <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2014-september-19-potentially-habitable-moons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tantalizing<\/a> worlds, Enceladus is backlit by the Sun in this Cassini spacecraft image from November 1, 2009. <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/photojournal\/a-song-of-ice-and-light\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The dramatic illumination<\/a> reveals the plumes that continuously spew into space from the south pole of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/saturn\/moons\/enceladus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturn&#8217;s 500 kilometer diameter moon<\/a>. Discovered by Cassini in 2005, the icy plumes are likely connected to an ocean <a href=\"http:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2017EPSC...11..501C\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beneath the ice shell<\/a> of Enceladus. They supply material directly to Saturn&#8217;s outer, tenuous <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/apod\/?date=070327\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">E ring<\/a> and make the surface of Enceladus as reflective as snow. Across the scene, Saturn&#8217;s icy rings scatter sunlight toward Cassini&#8217;s cameras. Beyond the rings (lower right), the night side of 80 kilometer diameter moon <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/apod\/?date=170103\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pandora<\/a> is faintly lit by <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/apod\/?date=170316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturnlight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: pixels in space\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: One of our Solar System&#8217;s most tantalizing worlds, Enceladus is backlit by the Sun in this Cassini&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[243471,61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-675544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675544","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=675544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}