A never-before-seen “supersized” ring around the planet Saturn has been discovered. The infrared Spitzer space telescope was able to detect it.
The ring dust is very cold – minus 316 degrees Fahrenheit – it shines with thermal radiation.
The bulk of the ring material starts about 3.7 million miles from the planet and extends outward about another 7.4 million miles.
The newly found ring is so huge it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it, JPL said.
Just imagine that—1 billion Earths to fill the ring. Makes us pretty insignificant, doesn’t it?
[Sources: Guardian, Huffington Post, Nature Journal]
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