'Year's best meteor shower' and the moon's 'whistle-stop tour' - what to look out for from this weekend
July is a good month for stargazing, with meteor showers kicking off above our heads and the moon sitting near Saturn, Uranus, the..
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine-and-a-half times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive. Even though Saturn is nearly the size of Jupiter, Saturn has less than one-third of Jupiter's mass. Saturn orbits the Sun at a distance of 9.59 AU (1,434 million km) with an orbital period of 29.45 years.
July is a good month for stargazing, with meteor showers kicking off above our heads and the moon sitting near Saturn, Uranus, the..