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Northwest stargazers can enjoy the brilliant bands of Saturn – and much more

Perseids, which have already begun, continue through late August

By Scott Hewitt, Columbian staff writer
Published: July 27, 2021, 6:02am
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A Juno space probe passed below Jupiter and took this photograph of the giant planet's cloud bands on April 10, 2020.
A Juno space probe passed below Jupiter and took this photograph of the giant planet's cloud bands on April 10, 2020. (Contributed by NASA/JPL-CalTech/SwRI/MSSS) Photo Gallery

Put a ring on your summer night.

That’s your stargazing challenge for the first evening of August: to look up and track down the foremost jewelry in space, the rings of Saturn.

While recent space probes have discovered that intricate ring systems also encircle the three other gas giants in our outer solar system — Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune — Saturn’s big, brilliant bands always steal the stargazing show.

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