Squinting At Saturn Through 17th Century Technology
Posted On Saturday, September 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ARIZONA Tags: astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini, Cassini Division, Galileo, NASA Ames Research Center, Saturn's rings
(ISNS) -- A team of French researchers has shed light on an important moment of astronomical history by testing the old lenses used by astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini when he observed a minuscule gap between two of Saturn's rings in 1675. Questions have lingered over whether it was possible to see ...