Giant ring detected around Saturn
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Tiny Moon feeds largest ring around saturn
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PARIS: Anew mega ring has discovered around Saturn. Scientist believe that its genesis is a small moon of a distant giant planet. Phoebe, a Saturnian satellite measuring only 214 kilometres (133 miles) across, probably provides the record-breaking tenuous circle of dusty and icy debris.The circle starts about six million kilometres (3.7 ...
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New Ring Found Orbiting Saturn
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NASA has discovered a new ring orbiting the 6th planet from the sun, Saturn. This ring is an elliptical montrosity that goes around the planet at a range from 3.7 million to 7.4 million miles. NASA reported that the Spitzer Space Telescope located this new ring. (I am not making up the name of the telescope! I do not know ...
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- News Source: The Guardian | about 1 month agoAn enormous halo of dust that circles Saturn and dwarfs its more familiar rings has been discovered by astronomers. The ring, the largest in the solar system, surrounds the planet from a distance of 8m miles, about 50 times further out than the...
- News Source: The independent | about 1 month agoThe faint ring extends more than seven million miles from the planet. The faint ring has remained hidden until now but is enormous, extending out more than seven million miles from the planet. Unlike Saturn's "flat" rings, the new belt resembles a...
- News Source: Xtra News | about 1 month agoScientists have spotted a huge ring around Saturn -- the largest planetary ring seen yet in the solar system. The faint ring, made of tiny particles, partly marks the orbit of Saturn's distant moon Phoebe, Anne Verbiscer of the University of Virginia...
- News Source: NewKerala | about 1 month agoIt took Spitzer's space telescope, operated by the lab, to isolate the image of ice and dust particles in the ring, according to a lab release. The ring starts around six million km from the planet and extends to another 12 million km. It is also...
- News Source: BBC | about 1 month agoThe dusty hoop extends some 13 million km from the planet, about 50 times further out into space than its more familiar rings. Scientists tell the journal Nature that the tenuous ring is probably made up of debris kicked off Saturn's moon Phoebe by...
- News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | about 1 month agoPhoebe, a Saturnian satellite measuring only 214 kilometres (133 miles) across, has a circle of dusty debris with a diameter of some 13 million kms (8.12 million miles), they report on Thursday in Nature, the weekly British science journal. If the...
- Blog Source: www.usposttoday.comBefore the discovery Saturn was known to have seven main rings named A through E and several faint unnamed rings. A paper on the discovery was to be published online Wednesday by the journal Nature. “This is one supersized ring,” said ...
- Blog Source: www.doiget.comNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.
- Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.comThe Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced late Tuesday.
- Blog Source: celebritytwittergossip.comNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn — by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings. The new belt lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system, with an orbit tilted 27 degrees from the ...
- Blog Source: preetha21.wordpress.comThe newly found ring is so huge it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it, JPL said. Before the discovery Saturn was known to have seven main rings named A through E and several faint unnamed rings. ...
- Blog Source: nasa-image.blogspot.comNASA Space Telescope Discovers Largest Ring Around Saturn. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings. The new belt lies at the far reaches of the ...
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@AnnCurry @JuliaAWhite SO crazy. Now I'm thinking about lunar pollution and angry moon men.
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@AnnCurry Whoa. Nasa will fire a lunar rocket at the moon 7am edt tomorrow to gather data on water. It will be live on tv.
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@ldignan Posted on BTL: NASA aiming to shoot the moon http://bit.ly/IxrN9
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@jonesdel Sure lost a lot of sleep over nothing// RT @USATODAYtech: NASA downgrades threat of large asteroid http://bit.ly/3oQOgo
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@markknoller http://twitpic.com/kmt3r - These & other telescopes on the WH South Lawn will give Obama & kids a great view of the moon and Jupiter.
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@ldignan NASA preps to shoot the moon http://bit.ly/1Wa1ru
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@erinbiba Ginormous ring discovered around Saturn. This is way bigger then Saturn's actual rings. Pic/story: http://rubyurl.com/hsPa
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@astroengine @webecamethey I think it's 4:30am PDT and it looks like NASA TV will be playing the event live :) Should be fun
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