These spectacular images are from cassini spacecraft as it looked towards its old home while its orbiting the Saturn. (courtesy: Earth observatory, NASA)
The stunning saturn rings are real images. NASA explains: “This beautiful image of Saturn and its rings looks more like an artist’s creation than a real image, but in fact, the image is a composite (layered image) made from 165 images taken by the wide-angle camera on the Cassini spacecraft over nearly three hours on September 15, 2006. Scientists created the color in the image by digitally compositing ultraviolet, infrared, and clear-filter images and then adjusting the final image to resemble natural color.”
