When A Leaf Turns

There is apparently a giant ring around Saturn that we never knew about (at least I didn’t)!

The Spitzer Space Telescope took photos of this ring, which starts around 3.7 million miles from the planet and extends to about 7.4 miles from the planet. Apparently it’s incredibly diffuse and so doesn’t reflect enough light to be seen from earth. Instead the Spitzer telescope looked into the infrared to see it. The above is just an artists rendition that I swiped from Fox News. It sure does look pretty, though.

For more information, you can always check out Wikipedia. It’s not the best place for some kinds of information, but for this I think it’s pretty good.