Saturn's Rings Will Temporarily Disappear From View in 2025

From Earth’s perspective, we’ll be looking at the gas giant’s rings edge-on, making them nearly impossible to see

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Fascinating. Never knew this was a thing.
I'll have to try the telescope! It's not very powerful, but I know I'm on Saturn because it's a clearly oblate blob. At that time, it'll be a round blob?
very amusing. Thank you for posting op
Yep! They go through a phase of being edge-on so become incredibly flat from our perspective. That also means there's a peak where the rings are most visible which will be in 2032.

There's a lot of good books out there with these phases detailed as well as guides for other planets. Highly recommend it for anyone getting into astronomy.