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Saturn’s summer season ends as Hubble telescope watches (photos) – Space.com
The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating since 1990.
Saturn is now in the “September” of its lengthy year, and an iconic space telescope is watching the ringed planet’s change of seasons.
Spring and autumn officially got underway here on Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively, just a few days ago with the arrival of the vernal equinox. The coming and going of seasons is possible when a planet has a tilted axis and both Earth and Saturn have a lean in their spins.
But there’s a big difference in their length of seasons. Earth takes…
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