Saturn In Natural Colours Tapestry PopSocket Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI

While we already have a pretty good picture on the globular clusters of the Milky Way — still with many unanswered questions — our studies on globular clusters in nearby dwarf galaxies just started

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on June 3

Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO

The color balance was adjusted to approximate the true color of Mars

Saturn In Natural Colours Tapestry PopSocket Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScIThe ring swirling around Saturn consists of chunks of ice and dust. Saturn itself is made of ammonia ice and methane gas. The little dark spot on Saturn is the shadow from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided images of Saturn in many colors, from black and white, to orange, to blue, green, and red. But in this picture, image processing specialists have worked to provide a crisp, extremely accurate view of Saturn,