Saturn: Crash Course Astronomy #18
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- Saturn is the crown jewel of the solar system, beautiful and fascinating. It is a gas giant and has a broad set of rings made of ice particles. Moons create gaps in the rings via their gravity. Saturn has dozens of moons, including Titan, which is as big as Mercury and has a thick atmosphere and lakes of methane; and Enceladus which has an undersurface ocean and eruptions of water geysers. While we are still uncertain, it is entirely possible that either or both moons may support life.
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Chapters:
Introduction: Saturn 00:00
Saturn's Atmosphere 1:23
Saturn's Hexagonal Storm 2:02
Saturn's Rings 2:49
Anomalies in Saturn's Rings 4:45
Titan: Saturn's Largest Moon 6:31
Enceladus’s Water Geysers 8:34
Saturn's Other Moons 9:51
Review 11:22
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Saturn saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia... [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/G. Ugarkovic]
Interiors solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedi... [credit: Lunar and Planetary Institute]
Saturn Ring Plane Crossing www.spacetelescope.org/static/... [credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona Lunar & Planetary Lab) and NASA/ESA]
Translucent Rings www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/d... [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute]
Catching its Tail www.ciclops.org/view_media/345... [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute]
Enter the Vortex www.ciclops.org/view_media/380... [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
The Rose www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cas... [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Ice www.nasa.gov/images/content/20... [credit: NASA/JPL/University of Colorado]
Saturn’s rings to scale www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astron... [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Saturn’s Ring Plane en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of... [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute - Cassini-Huygens/NASA]
Saturn saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia... [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/G. Ugarkovic]
Shaping the Drapes (video) ciclops.org/view.php?id=1361&js=1 [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Peaks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of... [credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab / Space Science Institute]
Mimas Cassini en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(m... [credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute]
Cassini NAC RGB www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan... [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/G. Ugarkovic]
Titan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(m... [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Titan’s Nile River www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Imag... [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI]
Lakes photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figu... [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/USGS]
Enceladus www.ciclops.org/view_media/395... [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Iapetus Ridge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatori... [credit: NASA (Cassini probe), Matt McIrvin (image mosaic)]
Hyperion ciclops.org/media/ir/2005/1507... [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Saturn eclipse mosaic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of... [credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute]
I absolutely love it when the teacher is just as passionate about what they are teaching as much as I am.
+ernesto garcia SAAAME
Man, his conclusion made tear up a bit...
GreyFang9 oh my goodness me too . im slowly falling in love with astronomy aaaaa dhfgfj
Forget TH-cam, "Crash Course Astronomy" belongs on TV! It's fantastic.
solesearched That's why it's not on TV.
People still watch TV?!
TʀʏSᴏғᴛGᴀᴍᴇs What is TV? I only know of TH-cam and NetFlix
Andre Castro exactly
Prqi I watch TV!
Is that an equatorial bulge or are you just happy to see me.
Man the narrator is so awesome. Such energy and perfect clear voice. :-D
69 Solo I wish I could do that
+69 solo. i have seen you in astrums vidoe. when he made neptune, you started saying you wanted to live on neptune. i have seen you
I believe the guy is an actual scientist
@@goldginger_1 he's indeed a scientist. he's also seen in a space documentary video here on YT
Indeed
I laughed when Thought Cafe made 5 year old Phil bald.
+cougarhunter33, for a moment I thought that he could be coming from another planet where one year aging for us here on Earth is about ten years where he came from. lol
+Mark Said dont
make fun of him
+Rita Mukanda The dude wasn't making fun of him.
the_youtuber???
:l
He may have "artificially"shaved his head?Animated aphil
When I was a kid obsessed with space, Saturn and Jupiter really fascinated me with their size, colours, rings, moons and their metallic hydrogen cores.
I drew pictures of the planets, coloured them and labeled their structures, it was really fun.
GuyWithAnAmazingHat this comment is so wholesome
Am a 13 year old and am kinda obsessed about space so
lol
Glad to see people are taking in actual facts, rather than assuming the earth is flat! Restores my faith in humanity😀
Yeah my fachination about space started with photos of Saturn and then my love about the solar system and all about space skyrocketed.
I'm so glad you added the note about how amazing it is to see saturn in a telescope. It should be on everyone's bucket list. I saw it through a 13" reflecting telescope on Mauna Kea, and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was so real, like a perfect little porcelain toy hanging there in space. Truly amazing, I will never forget it.
Just looked at Saturn through a telescope for the first time about a week ago in my astronomy class. I love astronomy but I've never been good at the actual math part of science, so it never turned into anything more than a side hobby. And the class is only to fulfill my one science requirement in college as an English major. But the class has opened my eyes and changed the way I view the world, and now I just want to go and buy a telescope so I can continue to look at the sky once the course ends.
I've yet to see Saturn's rings myself through a telescope. For me, what got me into astronomy was seeing Jupiter and the Galilean moons through a telescope, I Could even somewhat make out the red dot. I'll never forget that moment, it sparked a lifelong love for the universe in me.
Which telescope?
i just noticed the kerbans on the desk
*kerbals
shay campbell OMG! just noticed the three kerbals on the desk! :3 i love that game bought it three years ago and its one of my most played steam games xD
shay campbell Yaaaay, they're back!
shay campbell They were on the shelves in the back in previous episodes.
shay campbell Thumbs up for a "Phil plays KSP" series! :D
I've always been interested in astronomy, but never deeply got into it, it all started two months ago when I was looking at the moon with a cheap terrestrial telescope, magnifying it 20x, I spotted a bright interesting ''star'' right next to it, sitting low in the sky, and I decided to look at it. After few minutes looking at it with a very low power small telescope and blurry atmosphere, I realized it was Saturn! Before this, I never knew we can even look at planets trough a telescope! I was completely amazed, and 1 week later, I already made tons of researches about astronomy, bought a bigger refractor 90mm telescope, than barely one month later, I bought a much bigger C8 Edge 203mm reflector on CGEM mount and I'm about to start deep sky astrophotography... All this, thanks to Saturn! I'm totally in love with astronomy!
But it would leave a ring, lol! And that face! The moon may not be made of cheese, but Phil sure is!
I can't get over his face lmao
heypookeybearitisi That _IS_ an old joke. Over a century! I first heard it from Clyde Tombaugh when taking astronomy courses at New Mexico State in the 80's. I love that Phil pays homage to the tradition!
***** ¥÷
I dont get the joke...
Guru Mage thank God I'm not the only one
I work at the observatory at my university and I host public star parties every weekend. I love seeing everyone’s reactions to seeing the planets for the first time. The amount of wonder and excitement they get is so rewarding.
Saturn is my favourite planet. :D
***** Uranus is my favorite planet :3
Yess uranus!
Earth is mine because without it I wouldn't exist
I would've thought Neptune would be your favorite, Poseidon...
William Desmond my favorite is mars, we can reach it and it seems easy to colonize!
I love this crash course series. Phil is such a great host!
Oh god, I'm never gonna hear the end of the Uranus jokes next week...
aiden baron Why do they call it Uranus? Because it's made of Urine?
i208khonsu it was gonna be named hearsel but they wanted the roman god theme.
aiden baron You should be proud of Uranus, it is urs...
aiden baron There's only going to be 7 planets left once i'm done with Uranus.
***** Probably not. Since the planets are named after the Roman equivalent, so it will be based on Latin, den ellinikh.
My mother started crying when i showed her Saturn through a telescope! She had a hard time coming to terms with what she was looking at... and of course i was blown away as well. Gee i wish i still had my C8!
Phil the host can make watching paint dry interesting
Or watching batteries charge
KERBALS! Yay for simulation!
i saw the kerbals to and was about to post :D
Lol! Was about to post and saw this. Love that game :3
You may not have noticed them, but your brain did.
GOOO JEBIDIAH!!
yup! if all the missions to these planets used radar and infrared devices then WHERE ARE THE IMAGES!!!
Just photographed Saturn and its rings to the first time with my dingy camera, made my year.
10:30 the saturn thing is so true. Of course we knew the images we saw of saturn were real, but to see it through a telescope is a completely different experience
One of my earliest memories is my dad finding Saturn with a telescope and an amateur astronomy guide book he bought and showing it to me.
Of all the cool space stuff I've been fortunate enough to see (Saturn, Venus , the ISS, Jupiter, the Hale-Bopp comet and a few eclipses). Saturn is easily the most impressive even it was just a tiny dot with a slash through it.
I absolutely love Phil's enthusiasm for astronomy, it makes these videos so wonderful to watch!
The first time I saw Saturn through a telescope I was also left speechless! I remember I called my wife, in excitement, and then she took a quick peek, said okay, and ran back to the house to keep watching that damn soap opera she was watching. :|
It's always so disappointing when you get all worked up and excited about these things, and explain them passionately to someone, and they just reply like you told them that they should get milk next time they go to the store... I will never understand the people who don't find astronomy very cool...
Yes! I wish my girlfriend had the same passion. I lover her...but...I wish she'll enjoy it as much as me.
Jims you're so right
If I had to belong to any sect
It must be science.
Real world not miracles
I know your pain lol
what !!!!!! so I can say I don't know women. what are these women thinking about all the day? go shopping?!
This series is so wonderful, and I too was blown away when I first saw Saturn through a telescope.
Best Coles Notes on the Solar System ever and could be best ever period. Our Solar System is beyond spectacular and Saturn is at the forefront.
Good to have Jeb, Bill and Bob joining us! What's your favourite thing to do in KSP, Phil?
He should do a Pluto special after the New Horizons flyby.
Them doing an episode seems unlikely because they put Neptune and Uranus in one video so if he mentions it will be in the kuiper belt vid
Cullyn Knight Scishow Space will be doing that, for sure!
Shenanigans I'd be disappointed if Uranus and Neptune were combined in one episode, but that's mostly the fault of us not sending more than one mission to visit them. As for Pluto, I am sure SciShow Space will talk about the discoveries in detail.
Scott89878 At the end of the episode the thumbnail for the next episode showed Neptune and Uranus so it might be longer than average
Cullyn Knight Nope. Pluto's outside like Louis Winthorpe watching Billy Ray Valentine at a dinner party enjoying company he used to belong to.
I'm already 31 but i feel like dropping everything and taking up astronomy...
i should probably sleep on it...
Pooja Deshpande Never too late to pursue your passions.
Pooja Deshpande I must tell you. There is a lot more to it than learning facts about planets, moons etc. A first glance of astronomy can be cute and harmless. The mathematics behind the physics and the mechanics and everything that follows it is included in studying astronomy. But, good luck with your pursuit! :)
Arthur Dent I am 100% with you. I am myself in chem.eng, and in my last few years I've experianced a lot of people (especially in physics) dropping out one by one due to having the wrong picture of what their major is all about.
Mathematics are truly beautiful and we are dependent of it, a tool of sort, without it nothing makes sense and we respect it deeply. Unfortunantly some people are not the "hard working types", thinking that it will all be a dance on roses until they graduate.
But with patience and a lot of dicipline (and ofc. loving what you do) one can reach and become anything.
I'd rather say good luck to you and all of us. We need it :)
Syeal7 It could also be the factor of life in general, cost of higher education is insane, the stress of raising a family (especially as a single parent), but I digress. I'd love to pursue astronomy but I was never great with math or physics.. then again, my education was flawed, as both schools I went to made me skip a grade (twice) and repeat the same classes while teachers fudged the grade.
Pooja Deshpande Astronomy is awesome, and if you want to go for a degree or something, do it.
I was at the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff Az back in 2013 and the astronomer there had his telescope set up. I looked through it and BAM there was Saturn in all it's glory. I thanked him and told him I would love to get into studying astronomy but felt I wasn't smart enough. He laughed at my nonsense. A few years later my wife bought me a telescope for Christmas and a few months later I saw Saturn (Easter Sunday 2017). It took my breath away again. My two little newborn puppies were at my feet and could sense my excitement!!! Saturn truly is inspiring.
I hope you named the puppies after two of Saturns moons?
Phil's comment at the end really hit home. I viewed Saturn for the first time on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai, China at elevations of 4200 m and 4680 m. Clearly visible through my scope were Saturn, its larger moons, and of course its rings. At the 4680 m site, we could see the bands of Saturn. Jupiter and its moons were also easy to see, but like Phil I was mesmerized most by Saturn.
I wish it have known astronomy years ago. I'm loving it, I'd probably seek a profession in this area.... Congratulations, Phil. You have one of the greatest course in this Chanel! I'm very happy to be able to see it and understand it, cause I'm from Brazil. Learned English by my own. Cheers!
This comment will probably become buried, but just wanted to say thank you to CrashCourse for all these amazing videos! I love learning about all these things, and each new video shares at least one new tidbit of information :) and our solar system is awe-inspiring. Again, thank you!
I could barely believe it when he said that seeing Saturn through a telescope was many peoples inspiration to become astronomers since it was my turning point into astronomical fascination as well. One of my fondest memories - an unbelievable sight to behold.
I will never forget seeing the big red spot and 3 moons around Jupiter. Very cool and humbling
lol My home state is Colorado as well. My father was an engineer on the Cassini probe
I freaking love CC Astronomy. Waiting for the next big thing from you guys, CC Physics preferably!
before i start watching the video, i just wanna say YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXCITED I AM WHENEVER A NEW CRASH COURSE ASTRONOMY VIDEO IS POSTED. So yeah thank you~ okay watching the precious video right now.
Thank you for setting the record straight about Saturn floating on water. It drives me crazy when people say that. IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. Just leave it at "less dense than water".
It's almost two am and i couldn't be watching anything more interesting than this!
Q: what do you call a tick on the moon?
A: A luna-tick
*I upload science videos of my own so feel free to check them out if you have the time:-)*
Science Girl that pun is so bad it's good
it sounds like a pun that luan loud would say.
I saw Saturn a few years ago through a telescope at the local observatory. It was breathtaking. One of the most amazing and beautiful things I have ever seen for sure.
Your description of Viewing the planet from a telescope is real high energy... I could feel your emotion! Can't wait for my turn
i love this show, thanks for teaching me about the solar system i really enjoy keep it up!
What would be the best/easiest way for someone who isn't invovled in astronomy to have a stargazing session/have a look at saturn?
***** Just get a telescope, I guess. He said it himself, first time he saw Saturn for the first time when he was five. g
***** There are probably local astronomy groups in a lot of places. And they're the kind of people who are thrilled to share... you can probably find one near you with a google search. Contact them!
***** there are programs witch say when and wher a planet will pass, try at at a clear night, with a telescope/binoculars atleast.
How about going to a telescope shop after dusk and asking to let you see upwards for a little while? Even in highly light-polluted cities, Saturn is usually perfectly visible.
And should that doesn't work, such stores may have info about stargazing reunions.
***** Learn a few constellations. Then in the later hours of night, after midnight, Scorpius will rise into the sky, but there will be a star that doesn't belong in the constellation. That's Saturn. Also, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter are chilling in a straight line after sunset. Jupiter is the other good planet to look at, as it has it's 4 moons and you can see some of the bands of weather patterns on it. Venus and Mercury usually just reveal their phases and Mars, the only feature you can usually make out is an ice cap. And if you don't have a telescope, you can still see a lot of these features with binoculars, if you can hold them still long enough.
A few years back I was on vacation in Florida. It was a warm evening and Saturn was up. Lots of people were drifting in and out of the beach bar. I clamped a pair of binoculars onto my camera tripod, aimed at Saturn, and we all took turns having a look. One of the best evenings of my life.
I was lucky enough to be involved in a Star Party at a local primary school recently. A long line of children and parents looked through the telescope, and it was a steady stream of, "Oh wow!" "Oh my goodness". It was a very special thing to be involved with so many people getting their first view of Saturn. Nearly as much fun as seeing it myself for the first time.
Such symmetry!!!
Death the kid?
Saturno, un planeta hermoso.
He's not kidding about loving to share astronomy via Saturn. I'm a newbie to astronomy, but I once had a chance to do some stargazing with Phil Plait. He showed our group a bunch of stuff in his telescope, including the M80 Globular Cluster and some other cool star formations. The absolute best, though, was Saturn. It almost looks fake in a good telescope. Perfectly sharp, with the rings bright and easy to see. He was super excited to share it with us. It was an awesome (in the very literal sense) experience.
The sci-fi novel "Midnight At the Well of Souls" by Jack L. Chalker and published in 1977 concerns a planet that has a hexagon (albeit much smaller) at its north pole. A true mind blower that I've not seen mentioned anywhere else.
PBS good work love the shows try and keep them after TPP.
Having seen Saturn through a small personal telescope in high school, I can testify to the awe that the planet gives. It's such a beauty!
The first planet I saw through my telescope a few months ago was Jupiter. I remember being in awe. I was finally seeing Jupiter with my own eyes. Not through a screen and not in a photo. Then one morning I woke up really early for some reason. I decided to check my star map app on my phone to see what was out at that time in the morning. I saw Saturn on the app. So of course I hauled my telescope into my backyard. I pointed it at Saturn, looked through the eyepiece and saw the most beautiful sight I had ever seen. I will never forget that moment in my life. I'm 25 and finally got my first telescope a couple months ago. I bought it from a friend who was getting a bigger better one. But I have wanted a telescope since the first time I learned about space and I always wanted to see Saturn and Jupiter. Every time I point my telescope to the sky I feel like that little kid 20 years ago learning about the planets for the first time.
My first planet was Jupiter. My dad was a civil engineer and brought home a surveying transit - essentially a small telescope. With it I was able to see Jupiter and some of its moons. Then Venus in a crescent shape. Saturn had to wait until it came into the night sky for me. Great video series!
I love this guy.
I can't stop playing Kerbal space program instead of studying calculus. any tips?
previouslyad Study Orbital dynamics while playing ksp, That should be good enough, right?
previouslyad my tip: study your calculus and become a real astronaut ;-)
Nuke your computer
previouslyad more boosters
previouslyad Set up a reward system for yourself. After a certain number of problems, you allow yourself one flight. (Or, after mastering one concept, you allow yourself a limited amount of play-time.)
Hey Phil. I'm not an astronomer, but I've just love astronomy for as long as I can remember. I've seen a few things with the naked eye. But I'll never forget the time I saw Saturn for the first time through a telescope. I pointed the telescope at the brightest "star" I could see. And then I saw it. The rings. I was in awe. It had always been my favorite planet, so to see it in its full glory, for real. Like I say, I'll never forget it. Thanks for the awesome knowledge you pass. It's truly great.
Scientists estimate the rings could be gone in 300 million years, but they could vanish even faster. NASA's Cassini mission made more detailed observations of ring rain, and that data indicates the rings could disappear in just 100 million years.
Is it common the storm's hexagonal shape? Why does it take exactly that shape? O.o That's truly fascinating!
Debbie Aguilar It's a resonance pattern; at that latitude, the material in the atmosphere sways slightly north/south three times as it circles the planet, creating a standing wave pattern. Like Phil said, the same phenomenon creates the jet stream in Earth's atmosphere ... but by comparison, our atmosphere spins more slowly and is much hotter, so the standing wave is easily disrupted by other weather effects, so it's much more sinuous than hexagonal.
I love those little kerbals in the corner.
........space makes me cry!!! Saturn and it's moons seriously amazes me to know end
Phil, you will get a kick out of this.
In 1980, there was a guy named Bob Little, who organized a cruise on a big cruise ship from New York City to Bermuda Island, calling it "The Astronomy Island Cruise".. My wife and I flew from CA and took the cruise, along with about 40 others, including Isaac Asimov and his wife with Asimov giving a couple of talks enroute. The ship docked and stayed at Bermuda two nights. The group was driven in several cars to the observing site, where to local astronomy club was hosting the viewing session. They had one of Jim Coulter's first 13.1" Odyssey Dobsonian telescopes (exactly like mine) set up for evening viewing. Basically, this was set up for people who lived under bright city lights and never had the opportunity to observe truly dark skies. Asimov gave another talk and by then it was dark so the viewing session was about to begin, with the first object to be viewed being Saturn. Asimov's wife was a little pushy, pushed herself in front of all and was actually the very first person to look through the telescope at Saturn. She looked for a bit, and then loudly exclaimed, "Why, it's got a ring around it!" I've often wondered what Asimov thought about that. BHE
Thumbs up for a "Phil plays KSP" series! :D
Hyperion, Pandora, won't be a surprise if there was a Borderlands game on Titan or something...
Phil Plait, you're such a great communicator. Have loved your work ever since the early days of your Mars landing-skeptic rebuttal work.
Don't you love it when Phil gets beautiful and talks about one of the reasons he pursued his passion. Goals: to find someone who talks about you the same when Phil talks about Saturn. Love this dude 🌍❤
my name means saturn in persian so because of that i've had an obsession with saturn ever since.
+Zohal Asiya it also means saturn in arabic too
The occult aspect to Saturn would complete this video, Saturn is eeEEEVVVAAIIIILLL
This CC series is becoming one of my favourite. Such sincere enthusiasm, great job!!
this is the best series here on crash course, hands down
Something is gonna crash on Saturn.
Oh wait. It's Cassini.
So you were already bald at 5???? 😂😂😂😂
Saerayaa 😅😂savage
Touching to hear a personal note to your lectures, Phil. Awesome series, I'm loving every episode. Keep up the good work!
Saturn is the darling of the solar system! I wish I could like this video 100 times! Thanks crash course.
hahahaha i love phil's jokes
WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE KSP FIGURINES THAT ARE SITTING ON YOUR DESK?!
Cameron Cole You have to 3d print them sadly :(
***** Thanks a million! I need ten of these!
This is by far my favourite CC so far! And Phil is just an awesome tutor!☺
true, i saw saturn about 2 weeks ago through a friends telescope, haven't stopped learning about space and the planets since
that kerbals!
yes you may laugh at me and mock me but im the most special planet in our solar system
You passion when you talk about Saturn is palpable!!!
Loved your personal note! It is really inspiring to watch you talk about the planets with such passion
Mimas? Nah. It's called Minmus and it's a moon of Kerbin, not Saturn.
Slpk your wrong
thumbs up for kerbal space program !!
Thank you for this great series! You're such a clear, concise, and informative host.
I was waiting for you to mention Janus and Epimetheus... they are the only known similar-size objects that orbit their parent body with the same mean distance. One is always a little closer to Saturn than the other, and thus faster moving. Once it catches up to the other one from behind, it pulls it inward and is itself pushed outward so that they change roles, until the other one has caught up to the first one again. This cycle repeats roughly every seven years. It's called a horseshoe orbit.
Europa has the greatest chance of life, if it has life, i hope it doesn't waste its precious time praying to an imaginary deity in the sky
all these worlds are yours except Europa
Carbon Based Life Form Obviously, you seem more concerned about a deity than a lot of religious people are.
Carbon Based Life Form considering that that life would likely only be small organisms, you can assume they won't :P
Warning, Saturn fanboy alert :)
I very rarely comment on any video, but the videos in this channel are so well done that I had to; great job CrashCourse team.
I love watching these. The host is so in love with Astronomy, it really shows.
The oldest joke in astronomy? You can’t be sirius
Saturn is the crown jewel of the solar system? No. Earth is. Saturn might be second.
My vote goes to Sol that outshines all the other jewels in the solar system.
***** That's only temporary because currently it is infested with a mutant defective ape species, but time will cure that.
no earth is the blue marble, Saturn is the crown jewel, and Uranus is...
I can't wait to see Saturn! This show is truly inspiring! The host is so passionate about astronomy he makes it all sound so poetic and fascinating (It is of course, but I never had a teacher like him.)
Another incredible episode! Seeing pictures of the shadow cast by saturn across its rings is absolutely breathtaking!
imaytag Also the shadows cast by the rings onto the surface of the planet. Stunning.
imaytag Oh man, what would the rings look like from the 'surface' of the planet I wonder. Skimming along in a spaceship about halfway between the equator and the pole.
Thank u sir... your videos are always amazing. You explanations are some of the best Ive ever heard about anything astronomical.
I too became hooked on astronomy thanks to saturn, when I was 8 years old I viewed Saturn through a very large telescope a person had set up in a grocery store parking lot. Also this was the same year hale bopp had passed through our skies and I will never forget these two experiences even if I tried to and hope that I never will...
I love these Crash Course Astronomy videos, they're so interesting and well put together. Thank you so much for making them
I totally understand the feeling of seeing Saturn through a telescope. I remember chasing it through a friend's Dobson (those cannon style telescopes). It was hard to track, because it moved through the field of view in about 30 seconds. But when I saw Saturn I couldn't believe it was real. It was just so weird seeing the rings (and even being able to look through them, because at the time the were very tilted)