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Seeing Saturn for the First Time

People taking turns looking through a telescope

Published: February 23, 2005

Raina takes the telescope control and drives to Saturn at a Saturn Observation Campaign event in Altadena, CA.

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Two relatively medium-sized asteroids will fly safely past Earth overnight Sept. 13-14 (Eastern U.S. time).

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Saturn is so beautiful that astronomers cannot resist using the Hubble Space Telescope to take yearly snapshots of the ringed world when it is at its closest distance to Earth.

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