Social media users were floored by the incredible image captured in the viral post, with one saying: "I honestly gasped hard.

During Saturn's opposition this year the ringed planet through a telescope will look something like ... [+] the image at the lower-left of this composite from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Saturn’s northern hemisphere and rings. Planetary scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have trained it on Saturn to see what happens when summer turns to fall. Earth has seasons ...

For the past few months, Saturn's rings have been appearing thinner and thinner to those using ground telescopes. By March 2025, the rings will disappear entirely from view, according to Earth Sky ...