Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

The largest gap, known as the Cassini Division, measures only 2,920 miles in width. The rings' relative thinness and flatness is what allows them to vanish from view every few years due to both ...

The highly saturated image was an artistic representation of Cassini's final mission. Actual images captured by the spacecraft were monochrome with far less detail. NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...

In the same image, the more densely packed parts of the rings, like the A and B rings, are brighter because they backscatter more sunlight, while the Cassini division and the C Ring are dimmer.