The Story of the Solar System: Inside the rings of Saturn

Flying into the rings of Saturn reveals what they are made of: a rubble of ice, rock and dust, ranging in size from a small house to a grain of sand.

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August 12, 2018 at 12:00 pm

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Observations of the Stingray Nebula by the Hubble Space Telescope. Left shows the object as it appeared in 1996. Right shows the object in 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), and G. Ramos-Larios (Universidad de Guadalajara)

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