A fascinating new study on Saturn and its intriguing rings is out and appears to explain why they exist to begin with. According to the study, Saturn ‘s rings were actually born as a result of one of its moons exploding eons ago (an exact time isn’t quite clear as this may have been before recorded history.)
“It ties together two puzzles that had previously been treated as separate,” study co-author Dr. Francis Nimmo of the University of California, Santa Cruz, tells the Wall Street Journal. “It turns out that you can explain both in a single story.” It is estimated that this may have happened at least 200 million years ago or more.
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