ON a memorable evening in the year 1610 Galileo sat in the tower of his observatory in Florence, and gazed through his newly-invented “perspective glass” at Saturn, which was then regarded as ...

Four of our planets have rings, but Saturn's are enormous and complex, in a class of their own. Just after the turn of the 17th century, Galileo Galilei designed and built the first telescope ...

“Saturn is again something which Galileo looked at,” Brian says. “He described it as a planet with ears. Now, obviously he didn't believe they were physical ears. But he couldn't understand ...

Notably, Galileo Galilei's early telescopic observations in the 1610s couldn't resolve Saturn's rings. It was only in 1655, thanks to Christiaan Huygens, that the detached rings were identified.

Saturn's rings, although enormous, are too faint to see from Earth with the naked eye. The first human to ever observe them was Galileo Galilei in 1610 with his home-made telescope, but the ...

Astronomy enthusiasts in Madurai witnessed a rare planetary alignment of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, organized by the ...