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[[File:Saturn - HST 2019-06-20 full size.jpg|thumb|Photograph of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope]] | [[File:Saturn - HST 2019-06-20 full size.jpg|thumb|Photograph of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope]] | ||
'''Saturn''' is the second largest of the planets in our solar system, the sixth from the Sun, and the most distant that is visible to the naked eye. The ancients called Jupiter and Saturn “the great chronocrators,” or rulers of time, because the cycles of conjunctions between these two planets subdivide time into large units with observable political and economic cycles. | '''Saturn''' is the second largest of the planets in our solar system, the sixth from the Sun, and the most distant that is visible to the naked eye. The ancients called [[Jupiter]] and Saturn “the great chronocrators,” or rulers of time, because the cycles of conjunctions between these two planets subdivide time into large units with observable political and economic cycles. | ||
== Astrological significance == | == Astrological significance == | ||