EarthSky News - Sept 17 - Top Stories This Week

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Goodbye, Cassini The Cassini spacecraft has become part of Saturn, the planet it studied so spectacularly and so long. Cassini's last images and final moments, here. Most detailed color images of Saturn's rings, ever A finely seen section of Saturn's inner-central B Ring, in natural color. Titan's bonkers atmosphere Video about the atmosphere of Saturn's large moon Titan, which might resemble that of an early Earth. Irma turns Caribbean islands brown Wow. Satellite images of the Caribbean islands before and after Hurricane Irma. Andromeda galaxy next door to Milky Way The Andromeda galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way. Find it in your night sky! Equinox coming up on September 22 Here's everything you need to know. Occultations galore on September 18 It'll be the first time since 2008 that the moon occults - or covers over - 3 planets in less than a day. For good measure, the moon also occults a bright star, Regulus.

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Lake Louise A view of Lake Louise in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada on September 5, by Manish Mamtani. He wrote, "The smoke from a wildfire created a great mood."

Tomorrow … Occultations galore It'll be the first time since 2008 that the moon occults - covers - 3 planets in 1 day. It won't happen again until 2036. Photo: Lunar occultation of Venus by Ravindra Aradhya on February 26, 2014 Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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