Nine years ago today my colleagues and i shot what likely remains the highest resolution ground based image of Saturn ever taken.
We used the 1m F/17 Cassegrain telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory nestled almost 10,000ft altitude in the French Pyrenees.
Many rarely seen details were captured, such as the multiple fine ringlets within the C-ring. The narrow Encke division was captured around the entire ring system. This division is only 200 miles wide spanning less than 0.1 arc seconds in angular width.
Atop the globe of the planet the famous hexagon shaped feature is clearly seen - a fast moving jet stream that encircles the polar region.
Saturn's rings will not appear this open again until 2031 - perhaps by which time an even better ground based image will have been taken!
🚨 Ricky Gervais on God & Why The Universe Exists - "Why is there SOMETHING rather than Nothing"
“I’m an agnostic atheist. Technically everyone’s agnostic… no one knows whether there’s a God. We don’t know."
"An agnostic atheist is someone who doesn’t know there’s a God or not, as no one does. So you’re not convicted of your atheism?”
Atheism isn’t a belief system, it’s simply rejecting the claim that there is a God.
Are you an agnostic atheist too? Or do you believe?
What’s your take? Drop it below 👇
This short film by former Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas is genuinely disturbing. Alma (2009) delivers more unease in a few minutes than many full-length horror films.