Starship Asterisk*

'Fraid not. That would be a heck of a deep refraction, and it took a while but I got a circular object to just cover the lit part of Jupiter on my screen, and that's the whole circle. It can't go further to the left if the lit-up right side really is the right side of Jupiter. Also, we know the near...

I've been trying to understand the photo and I have a problem with it: why is the ring on the left side discontinuous with the planet? If the planet is blocking sunlight and the rings are black (in shadow), why are both the front and back part black? On the right side, only the part nearer to the ca...