Saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system, is located near the diminishing crescent of the month of Sha`ban after hours, in a new astronomical phenomenon.
The Qatar Calendar House said on its Twitter account this evening, Saturday, that the planet Saturn will be located near the diminishing crescent of the month of Sha’ban at dawn tomorrow, Sunday, and they can be seen with the naked eye towards the eastern horizon of the sky of the State of Qatar from after Saturn’s sunrise at 4:26 am until before sunrise tomorrow. .
Saturn, a gaseous planet consisting of a large percentage of hydrogen gas and a smaller percentage of helium, has a diameter of approximately 10 times the diameter of the Earth, and Saturn can be seen and monitored from the surface of the Earth with the naked eye as a bright object, but its rings can be seen by astronomical telescopes.
Yesterday, the smallest planet of the solar system arrived "Planet Mercury" To the farthest point from Earth in an astronomical phenomenon known as the phenomenon of the outer conjunction of Mercury with the Sun, at 1:53 pm Doha local time, when Mercury was at a distance of approximately 202 million kilometers from Earth.
