Equinox at Saturn

 

October 10, 2009 Science

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Space telescope U.S. space agency (NASA) discovered the largest and have never seen a ring around the planet Saturn, has announced the agency.

Laboratory agency said that the ring away, but within the Saturn system and consists of delicate particles of ice and dust.

NASA added that the ring is very wide and little visible, because there is not much light in it, but the infrared rays telescope able to detect it.

Although the ring is very cool, glow thermal radiation, said NASA.

The ring is wide and 5.95 million kilometers long, about 11.9 million kilometers around Saturn.

Saturn is the sixth planet of the solar system and the second largest planet after Jupiter.

The most famous feature of Saturn as the planetary rings that surround it in seven belts. Around Saturn orbit, and many natural satellites.

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