Saturn as a teaching tool: the rings make everyone shut up

Every year I show a class a Cassini image like this one, and every year there's a moment of silence. Then someone asks whether it's real. That question is the entire lesson.

Photo: Kevin Gill from Nashua, NH, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source

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@mara_oduya

Wait until they see it live through an eyepiece. Tiny, wobbly, and absolutely real. People gasp.

@rosalind_k

I had a teacher do this for me when I was twelve. I can still remember the room.

@wren_holloway

This is what got me into any of this at all.

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