12 May 2023
From Earth, Saturn is tiny and the Moon is large. You can see the huge size difference in Paul Byrne’s (@ThePlanetaryGuy) video of Saturn rising behind the Moon.
Every once in a while, if you time it just right, you can see Saturn rise from behind the Moon. pic.twitter.com/gnRAVQSgyu
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) April 28, 2023
In reality Saturn is 95 times larger than our Moon and has 83 moons of its own plus thousands of moonlets. Only seven of Saturn’s moons can be seen through a telescope from Earth.
(photo from Wikimedia Commons, click on the caption to see the original)