Saturn Saturn is one of the eight planets within our solar system; Nine, if you consider Pluto to be a planet. When we, as an average audience, look at the Saturn we automatically think that it’s that one planet with the the ring around it. Some people even assume that it’s the one and only planet with a ring about it. Those people would be wrong. Saturn is one of four planets that have rings in their orbit. The other three would include Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The sixth planet in our solar system definitely has the largest in size and by far the most interesting out of the four. Like mention as second ago, Saturn is the sixth planet within the solar system and the second largest as well. As a comparison, imagine the Sun as a normal door
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Therefore, there isn’t really an exact date to its discovery. As mentioned above, there are many mysteries to this planet, but one of them doesn’t include the naming of this planet. The name Saturn came from a greco-roman myth. Saturn is one of the many gods and he in particular is the god of wealth and many other things. He is also the father of another famous god, Jupiter, which another planet is named after. In 1610, when the first person to look at the planet Saturn through a telescope, Galileo Galilei, made the discovery of the biggest mysteries of Saturn to this day -- the rings. Initially Galileo assumed that they were just extensions of Saturn, but then, a couple years later, he observed the planet again and the moons that he saw the first time were gone. Then two years after than, he repeated the same process and discovered that the “moons” that he saw have returned. Finally, he just gave in and theorised that they were arms of Saturn instead. That’s when Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens came in to prove his theory wrong. Due to improved telescopes, he was able to realize that they were, in fact, not arm, but a complex ring system. To add onto that, he also discovered one of the largest moons in our system, Titan, which again, is part of greco-roman mythological naming trend that was going on at the time. Huygens has a space probe named after him, which is actually exploring the very moon he discovered. Another astronomer by the name of Jean-Dominique Cassini discovered four other major moons which included Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys and Dione. In addition to those groundbreaking discoveries he also found out there was a narrow gap in Saturn’s ring system, which would go on to be named after the astronomer who came across it in his observations. There is also a spacecraft named in the honor of his finding, which is actually
Therefore, there isn’t really an exact date to its discovery. As mentioned above, there are many mysteries to this planet, but one of them doesn’t include the naming of this planet. The name Saturn came from a greco-roman myth. Saturn is one of the many gods and he in particular is the god of wealth and many other things. He is also the father of another famous god, Jupiter, which another planet is named after. In 1610, when the first person to look at the planet Saturn through a telescope, Galileo Galilei, made the discovery of the biggest mysteries of Saturn to this day -- the rings. Initially Galileo assumed that they were just extensions of Saturn, but then, a couple years later, he observed the planet again and the moons that he saw the first time were gone. Then two years after than, he repeated the same process and discovered that the “moons” that he saw have returned. Finally, he just gave in and theorised that they were arms of Saturn instead. That’s when Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens came in to prove his theory wrong. Due to improved telescopes, he was able to realize that they were, in fact, not arm, but a complex ring system. To add onto that, he also discovered one of the largest moons in our system, Titan, which again, is part of greco-roman mythological naming trend that was going on at the time. Huygens has a space probe named after him, which is actually exploring the very moon he discovered. Another astronomer by the name of Jean-Dominique Cassini discovered four other major moons which included Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys and Dione. In addition to those groundbreaking discoveries he also found out there was a narrow gap in Saturn’s ring system, which would go on to be named after the astronomer who came across it in his observations. There is also a spacecraft named in the honor of his finding, which is actually