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Saturn, renowned for its spectacular rings, is the most distant planet visible to the naked eye. In the night sky, it appears as a bright yellow point of light. With a small telescope, you can observe its luminous disk, glimpse its distinct ring system, and see its largest moon, Titan, which is remarkable for being the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere. Saturn's rings span an impressive 300,000 kilometers in diameter, yet in some areas, they are only a few tens of meters thick. These rings are composed of countless small ice particles mixed with dust and larger ice boulders, some as big as cars or even multilevel houses. Like Jupiter, Saturn is a gas giant, meaning its dense, dynamic hydrogen atmosphere, blended with helium, gradually transitions into a layer of liquid molecular hydrogen. Beneath this layer lies a deeper layer of liquid hydrogen and a very hot, molten core of iron and rock. Saturn also features a large system of more than sixty moons.
