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Saturn’s rings may be far older than we thought

The age of the rings that encircle Saturn is under dispute thanks to calculations that show they could have been formed billions – rather than millions – of years ago

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Saturn and its rings, as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft

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Now is a great time to see Saturn in all its ringed glory

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2T6AF4B the planet Saturn photographed with an amateur telescope

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Moon of Saturn has an equivalent of freshwater rivers and salty oceans

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Titan as snapped by NASA's Cassini spacecraft showing the sun glinting off of the moon's north polar seas

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Saturn's moon Titan is experiencing coastal erosion from methane seas

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Saturn’s moon Mimas may be hiding a vast global ocean under its ice

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A radio image of Saturn showing traces of past storms

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Storms on Saturn are so huge that their traces last hundreds of years

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Release Date September 12, 2019 10:00AM (EDT) Caption Anyone who has ever peered at Saturn through a small telescope is immediately enticed by its elegant rings, which make the far-flung planet one of the most exotic-looking, opulent worlds in the solar system. The latest view of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system?which looks like a phonograph record with grooves that represent detailed structure within the rings?and atmospheric details that once could only be captured by spacecraft visiting the distant world. One such intriguing feature is the long-lasting hexagon-shaped structure circling the planet's north pole. It is a mysterious six-sided pattern caused by a high-speed jet stream. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft first discovered the

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How to spot Saturn's rings through a telescope

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JWST image of Saturn

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Stunning JWST image sees Saturn show off its glowing rings

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Bits of Saturn’s rings are falling onto the planet and heating it up

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Saturn's moon Enceladus

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Enceladus shown to have all six of the essential elements for life

Reanalysis of icy rock grains from a ring of Saturn – fed by ice plumes from its moon Enceladus – has revealed the presence of phosphorus, the only key essential element for life that hadn’t already been spotted

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Planet Saturn in deep space with major moons according to scale (Elements of planet texture for 3d render furnished by NASA

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Saturn's rings could have come from a destroyed moon named Chrysalis

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Enceladus’s oceans may be the right saltiness to sustain life

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Scott Bolton on his missions to the gas giants of the solar system

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Scott Bolton on his missions to the gas giants of the solar system

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Saturn’s small moon Mimas may be hiding an impossible ocean

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