An odyssey from the Bronx to Saturn’s rings

By Dennis Overbye / The Bulletin
September 23, 2009

It is twilight time on Saturn.

Shadows lengthened to stretch thousands of miles across the planet’s famous rings this summer as they slowly tilted edge-on to the sun, which they do every 15 years, casting into sharp relief every bump and wiggle and warp in the buttery and wafer-thin bands that....

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