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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft snapped a portrait of Saturn’s moon Enceladus (foreground)—joined by its sibling Epimetheus and the planet’s rings—during an October 1 flyby.
Enceladus’s famous south-polar jets project faintly at the bottom of the image.
The images of both moons have been contrast enhanced and brightened relative to Saturn’s rings.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft snapped a portrait of Saturn’s moon Enceladus (foreground)—joined by its sibling Epimetheus and the planet’s rings—during an October 1 flyby.

Enceladus’s famous south-polar jets project faintly at the bottom of the image.

The images of both moons have been contrast enhanced and brightened relative to Saturn’s rings.

Source: National Geographic

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Astronomy. Noun:

A) The science that deals with the material universe beyond earth's atmosphere.

B) The scientific study of the individual celestial bodies (excluding the earth) and of the universe as a whole. Its various branches include astrometry, astrodynamics, cosmology, and astrophysics.

C) The science that "compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another" (Plato).

Let's take our souls on some adventures through the universe, shall we?

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