Comments on: Features in the Gallery: Saturn https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/features-in-the-gallery-saturn/ SkyView News and Discussion Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:43:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Tom McGlynn https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/features-in-the-gallery-saturn/comment-page-1/#comment-17550 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:43:18 +0000 http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/?p=74#comment-17550 Pedro,
The observations you note are discussed in the comments of the blog entry at
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2009/04/29/features-in-the-gallery-sometimes-you-can-do-better/.
You see two images of Saturn because the image shown in the IRAS survey adds together two separate scans (three for some parts of the image) separated by a few weeks in time. Saturn moved a bit between the two scans.
Regards,
Tom

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By: pedro https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/features-in-the-gallery-saturn/comment-page-1/#comment-16630 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:12:00 +0000 http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/?p=74#comment-16630 hi I have a question , I have seen a pic in infrared on the skyview image gallery from 2009 , it lloks like 2 eyes and a smille 😛 like a smilling guy hehe , but what I know the IRAS team says it is saturn , but it is 2 stars? looks strange to me or dont look as saturn at all if you ask me 😛 is it really saturn? you can search on skyview image gallery 2009 on google , then it stands oldest- sky view image gallery then you have it on the first page uploaded 2009-03-27 I think it many pics of it

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By: Tom McGlynn https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/features-in-the-gallery-saturn/comment-page-1/#comment-4127 Wed, 25 May 2011 17:58:10 +0000 http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/?p=74#comment-4127 Sorry for the long delay. You may be thinking of supernovae which are exploding stars. Stars like our sun do not have enough mass to go supernova. They expand to red giants with a dense core and the very large but tenuous outer atmosphere. Eventually they blow off the atmosphere and the core turns into a white dwarf. The blown off atmosphere becomes a planetary nebula until it disperses.

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By: Adam Barr https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/features-in-the-gallery-saturn/comment-page-1/#comment-3418 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:13:42 +0000 http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/?p=74#comment-3418 Never knew that there was a planetary nebula named Saturn, I always though that planetary nebulae was exploded stars forming new stars and planets?

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By: andri https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/features-in-the-gallery-saturn/comment-page-1/#comment-1190 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:47:48 +0000 http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/?p=74#comment-1190 i love saturn 🙂

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