01Size139,820 kmDist779 million kmTemp165 K (-108 °C)
Jupiter
The Solar System's largest planet — a failed star, almost.
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The Solar System's signature image — a gas giant with rings.
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Saturn Earth
Drawn to true scale.
Saturn Sun Distance from Earth
Saturn is roughly 9.56× farther from Earth than Sun.
Picture this
Drop Saturn into a big enough bathtub and it would float. Of all the planets, it's the only one less dense than water — a gas giant so puffy that, gram for gram, you weigh more than it does.
If you scale the distance
Sunlight takes 80 minutes to reach Saturn — longer than the running time of most movies. From Earth, it's 1.4 billion km on average. Cassini, the spacecraft that orbited Saturn for 13 years, sent each frame back over a 1-hour radio crawl.
Saturn is the second-largest planet in the Solar System, a ball of hydrogen and helium nine times Earth's diameter. Its rings are the largest and brightest of any planet, made almost entirely of water ice — chunks ranging from grains of sand to icebergs — orbiting in a disc only tens of metres thick. Saturn has at least 146 known moons, including Titan, which has a thick atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane, and Enceladus, which fires jets of water into space from a buried ocean.
Glossary
Did you know?
Saturn's rings span 282,000 km across — wide enough to nearly reach the Moon if pinned to Earth — but they're absurdly thin, often only 10 metres top to bottom. Edge-on, they almost disappear.
Last updated 2026-07-05
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The Solar System's signature image — a gas giant with rings.
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116,460 km
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The Solar System's largest planet — a failed star, almost.
The closest known star to the Sun — and still impossibly far.
An ice giant tipped on its side.