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@davej@dice.camp
2025-12-23 03:08:21

Nearly missed it AGAIN! Happy #Saturnalia!

“Saturn Devouring His Son,” painted by Francisco Goya, c1820-1823. A giant, naked, disheveled god Saturn, with unkempt grey beard and long hair, clutches with both hands a smaller, also naked, but still adult-proportioned corpse, its head and right arm bitten off. He feeds the corpse’s left arm into his open maw, his bulging eyes staring directly at the viewer.

Caption: “Happy Saturnalia—May all your children be delicious.”

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-29 22:59:06

🍾 Simulations show Saturn's moon Enceladus shoots less ice into space than previous estimates
#saturn

Simulations show Saturn's moon Enceladus shoots less ice into space than previous estimates
In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth: the planet's luminous bands were not solid appendages, but vast, separate rings composed of countless nested arcs.