Saturn's Rings Saturn is back in our early evening sky, thank goodness.
Nothing beats the view of the planet's rings in even a small telescope.
You'll see a fairly bright point of light shining with a steady, yellow glow. The seventh planet from the sun is 770 million miles from Earth right now. The planet proper is 75,000 miles wide, and the visible portion of the rings span 170,000 from tip to tip. In a sense, Saturn doesn't really have rings at all. It has a billion trillion tiny moons, or rather moon fragments, that orbit around the planet along the same plane.