Saturn: Closest Encounter To Date (Cassini-Huygens Mission)

The Cassini spacecraft is the first man-made satellite to orbit Saturn. The data and images it has gathered from its Cassini-Huygens mission has provided immense information that has solidified some old theories about the planet and established foundations for new ones.
In this video you'll go along Cassini's voyage and experience never-before-seen close-ups of Saturn's violent and stormy south pole, and see a more tranquil bluish north pole. The gaps within Saturn's rings are explained and the celestial bodies now known to exist there. Plus many other features.
If you're curious about our solar system, you can find out more at NASA's website.

Image credits: NASA

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Meteors Target Earth

-Our moon and Earth get struck by space objects at approximately the same rate - then why is it that our surface doesn't appear with craters as prominently as the moon?

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NASA NEWS RELEASE

Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing

"...new images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing that it has just two major arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought to possess."

"Our own sun might have once resided in a different arm. Since it was formed more than 4 billion years ago, it has traveled around the galaxy 16 times."

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NASA NEWS RELEASE:

Asteroid to Make Rare Close Flyby of Earth January 29

Scientists are monitoring the orbit of asteroid 2007 TU24. The asteroid, believed to be between 150 meters (500 feet) and 610 meters (2,000 feet) in size, is expected to fly past Earth on Jan. 29, with its closest distance being about 537,500 kilometers (334,000 miles) at 12:33 a.m. Pacific time (3:33 a.m. Eastern time). It should be observable that night by amateur astronomers with modest-sized telescopes

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