Article: A BILLION MILES AWAY, AND YET SO CLOSE.(General News)(The Science Factory Planetarium beams up a full-color Saturn show that brings new discoveries into sharp focus)

Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard

It is out of this world both by definition and description, a place of ice geysers and methane rivers and winds that make a hurricane seem like a summer breeze.

And although it is more than a billion miles away, the ringed planet Saturn and its moons are coming into clearer focus than ever, thanks to a pair of spacecraft known as Cassini-Huygens that arrived at the planet more than a year ago. The pictures they have sent back have wowed the science community. Now the average skywatcher can see them from a ringside seat thanks to "Saturn: New Discoveries," a show that premiered Saturday at the Science Factory ...

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