A New Ring Discovered Around Saturn

Published Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:34 PM
New Ring Around Saturn
Image from NASA
A gigantic ring has recently been discovered around Saturn. Most of the material in the ring starts about 3.7 million miles from the planet and extends about another 7.4 million miles. This thing is HUGE. It is made up of ice and dust particles and is not visible with visible light telescopes. The cool ring particles were detected by an infrared telescope. Phoebe, one of Saturn's moons, orbits within the ring, going in the same direction as the ring. All of the other moons and rings of Saturn orbit in the opposite direction.
by Amaryllis Place
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