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Saturn
Planet · Sixth planet from the Sun
About Saturn
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Saturn was 9.52 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 79.2 minutes to reach it.
It goes round the Sun once every 29.5 years, at an average distance of 9.544 AU.
It is about 116,500 km across.
The map lists it as a planet and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).
Key numbers
| Semi-major axis | 9.544 AU |
|---|---|
| Orbital period | 29.5 years |
| Eccentricity | 0.0554 |
| Inclination | 2.49° |
| Mass | 5.68 × 10²⁶ kg |
| Radius | 58,232.0 km |
| Day length | 10.7 h |
| Mean temperature | −140 °C (1 bar) |
| Distance from the Sun | 9.52 AU |
Where it is
Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.
Zoom out to see it in context: Neptune and the Kuiper belt, a view about 110 AU across.
From Wikipedia
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, and is the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about 9 times that of Earth. It has an eighth of the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Saturn, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.