Image: Saturn's shadows

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 06:30 in Astronomy & Space

It may seem odd to think of planets casting shadows out in the inky blackness of space, but it is a common phenomenon. Earth's shadow obscures the Moon during a lunar eclipse, and Jupiter's moons cast small shadows onto their parent planet.

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