Not Saturn throwing shade 🫣⁣ ⁣ Saturn’s shadow is cast on its rings during nasasolarsystem’s Cassini spacecraft visit in 2015, capturing the planet from approximately 1.6 million miles (2.5 million kilometers) away. The shadow originally stretched beyond the edge of its rings for many years after Cassini first arrived at Saturn, reaching its maximum extent at the planet’s 2009 equinox. The shadow continued to shrink until the planet’s northern summer solstice, which occurred in 2019. ⁣ ⁣ Like Earth, Saturn is tilted on its axis. As the Sun climbs higher in the sky, shadows get shorter, changing the projection of the planet’s shadow on its rings shrinks and grows over the course of its 29-year-long orbit. ⁣ ⁣ Image Description: A black-and-white profile of Saturn and its rings stand out in sharp contrast against the depth of space. A circular shadow is cast on a portion of Saturn’s rings where the planet blocks the Sun’s rays from reaching Saturn’s rings. ⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech...