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(MENAFN – Youm7) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of Saturn-like music discs, with most episodes consisting of ice-sized pieces ranging from small grains to giant rocks.
Saturn's ring system now leans toward the Earth, letting us glimpse its structure and constantly moving around the planet in a complex cosmic dance.
The rings of Saturn
The Hubble image also reveals details in the atmosphere, difficult to capture by a spacecraft, like the hexagonal structure orbiting the planet's North Pole, so vast that it can accommodate four planets such as Earth in its limits.
Saturn
The age and origin of Saturn's ring system are unknown, but NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which plunged into the planet's atmosphere in 2017, has contributed to to clear up the mystery. Some 1,000 astronomers have interpreted this low mass as meaning that the rings could not exceed 100 million years, a fraction of the lifetime of Saturn.
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