Saturn's largest ring that can never seen before finally detected using an infrared space telescope (Spitzer Space Telescope) of Aviation and Space Agency United States (NASA).
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA, Tuesday (6 / 10), mentioned, although a ring of dust particles is very cold (minus 158 degrees Celsius), the dust particles remain exposed to heat radiation shines.
Saturn's largest ring that can never be seen because of ice and dust particles is very long and scattered. Unlike the seven other Saturn ring, ring "new" that is 6 million kilometers from the planet with 12 million miles wide. As an illustration, the ring can contain 1 billion of Planet Earth.
"This ring is huge," said astronomer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Anne Verbiscer, in an article in the journal Nature.
The largest source of ring material is probably derived from Phoebe, a moon that orbits Saturn in the ring. Phoebe allegedly colliding with Iapetus, Saturn's moon orbiting the other in the opposite direction. So far, astronomers suspect there is a link between Phoebe and Iapetus and the rings "new" is a proof.
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