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    Saturn Will Soon Put On Its Best Show Of The Year. Here's Where And How To See It

    Wipe the dust off your binoculars and extract the family telescope from the back of the closet: Saturn is about to put on its best and brightest show of the year — an act Jupiter will soon follow.
    by Scott Neuman Jul 29, 2021 3 minutes
    Saturn (right) with Jupiter in the night sky over Burnsville, N.C., in December during an event known as the great conjunction.

    Now might be the time to wipe the dust off that pair of binoculars and extract the family telescope from the back of the closet: Saturn is about to put on its best and brightest show, looking spiffier than at any time during the year – a performance that will be followed a few weeks later by Jupiter.

    The ringed planet will be at opposition on Sunday for people in North America. What exactly does that mean?, an astronomer and longtime science educator. "So very roughly once a year, Saturn, Earth and the sun line up," he tells NPR.

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