One of the most interesting shows of the year has already begun, what can the planet Saturn and its rings be seen in the sky tonight and early in the week, which is going to be a fascinating fact of astronomy.
This event is going to happen because during the night today Monday, July 20 and the dawn of Tuesday July 21 the alignment of the planet Saturn with the sun and the planet Earth is going to take place (opposition to the sun).
If you just do not want to leave your bed we leave you these two live videos this beautiful natural phenomenon.
It takes more than a year for Saturn to go around the sun, since it does so every 378 days and around the sun it fulfills an orbit of almost 30 years (29.5 years), so it will be a fascinating event that will be seen this day.
The presence of Saturn’s rings is expected to be quite visible or very similar to what happened in 2017 this morning, which will be a beautiful spectacle.
[1/2] On Saturn’s opposition: The radius of Saturn’s orbit is 10 Astronomical Units (1 AU = average distance from Earth to the Sun). This means that our distance to it varies between 9 and 11 AU. This causes very little variation in brightness and apparent size. #AstroMiniBRpic.twitter.com/WiFdFQeNoA– Deep Sky (@CeuProfundo) July 21, 2020
