No other planet in our solar system has rings as splendid as Saturn's. They are so expansive and bright that they were discovered as soon as humans began pointing telescopes at the night sky. Galileo Galilei was the first person known to view the heavens through a telescope.
Saturn is a funny-looking planet. True, it's not the only planet with rings. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have rings, too. But Saturn's rings are the biggest and brightest.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest planet in our solar system. Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Saturn is not the only planet to have rings, but none are as spectacular or as complex as Saturn's.
Mostly likely it's a combination of very massive planet/perhaps a brown dwarf star and young plant/star with a satellite system still in formation. There might also be a very powerful magnetic field at play that helps prevent the ring debris from forming into satellites, but that's just speculation on my part.
The satellite would have an orbital period of approximately two years around J1407b." Astronomers expect that the rings will become thinner in the next several million years and eventually disappear as satellites form from the material in the disks.
J1407b itself is estimated to contain 10-40 times the mass of Jupiter – technically, it might even be a brown dwarf. Further observations will be required to observe another transit of J1407b and obtain more data on its rings and other physical characteristics as its orbit is about ten Earth-years long.
Saturn is surrounded by over 1000 rings made of ice and dust. Some of the rings are very thin and some are very thick. The size of the particles in the rings range from pebble-size to house-size. Scientists believe that the particles came from the destruction of moons circling the planet.
No other planet in our solar system has rings as splendid as Saturn's.
The researchers estimate that the rings will only be around another few hundred million years at most. Previous research has suggested that the rings may disappear within 100 million years.
Named GJ 504b, the planet is made of pink gas. It's similar to Jupiter, a giant gas planet in our own solar system. But GJ 504b is four times more massive. At 460°F, it's the temperature of a hot oven, and it's the planet's intense heat that causes it to glow.
The rings of Super Saturn contain a lot of material in it, about the mass of Earth! This moon is thought to be 80% of that mass. That puts it as being larger than any Moon in the solar system.
The rings of Saturn are the most extensive ring system of any planet in the Solar System.
Gas giants are also called failed stars because they contain the same basic elements as a star. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants of the Solar System.
The rings and space
However, the rings would likely scatter any radio signals from satellites and spacecraft in equatorial orbits, limiting their usefulness. Still, the rings would likely interfere with astronomy, hindering ground views of the nighttime sky, Scharf said.
Saturn - Minus 220°F (-140°C)
It's not just the four gaseous planets of the solar system that have rings: the Chariklo minor planet, situated between Saturn and Uranus, is also ringed, and doubly so. It wasn't until 2013 that we discovered, by surprise, that this object had two narrow and dense rings, whose origin is still unknown.
Adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets, Saturn is unique among the planets. It is not the only planet to have rings – made of chunks of ice and rock – but none are as spectacular or as complicated as Saturn's.
Mars is colder than Earth because it is farther from the Sun, and the atmosphere is too thin to retain heat at the surface. A vast ocean system of liquid water covers 71% of the surface of Earth.
"Saturn is supposed to be yellow." If you've ever looked at Saturn through a backyard telescope, you know it's true: Yellow is the dominant color of Saturn's thick clouds. "Sunlight reflected from those clouds is what gives Saturn its golden hue," explains West.
Uranus holds the record for the coldest temperature ever measured in the Solar System: a very chilly -224℃. The temperature on Neptune is still very cold, of course – usually around -214℃ – but Uranus beats that. The reason why Uranus is so cold is nothing to do with its distance from the Sun.
Kid-Friendly Venus
Even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. Its thick atmosphere is full of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and it has clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere traps heat, making it feel like a furnace on the surface.
The b Centauri (AB) b is an exoplanet, a planet that is placed outside our solar system. Researchers said their findings show that planets can form in much more massive stellar systems than what previous results had made us believe. Being 10 times bigger than Jupiter makes it one of the biggest planets ever found.
Jupiter has a diameter of about 88,695 miles (142,800 kilometers) which is more than 11 times the diameter of Earth. It's volume is over 1,300 times the volume of Earth. This means that Jupiter is so big that over 1,300 Earths could fit inside of it.
The Giant GRB Ring is a ring of 9 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that may be associated with one of the largest known cosmic structures.
Uranus gets its blue-green color from methane gas in the atmosphere. Sunlight passes through the atmosphere and is reflected back out by Uranus' cloud tops. Methane gas absorbs the red portion of the light, resulting in a blue-green color.