Saturn’s largest moon Titan will solid its shadow throughout the planet’s floor in a uncommon spectacle this summer season. Over the approaching months, observers on Earth might even see a darkish “gap” transfer throughout Saturn’s disk as Titan passes in entrance of the planet. This occasion is tied to a particular alignment: roughly each 15 years, Saturn’s rings grow to be edge-on to our view (a ring-plane crossing or equinox). Certainly, in March 2025 the rings briefly vanished as they lined up edge-on, setting the stage for Titan’s shadow to loom massive on Saturn’s globe. After this 12 months’s transit season, the configuration will not recur till about 2040, making these transits uniquely unmissable.
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