Scientists Discover Huge Ring Around Saturn

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Scientists have discovered a huge ring around Saturn–and no, not the ones we already all know about. (This isn’t The Onion.)

NASA scientists have found a ring much further out from the planet, one that’s made up of debris from Saturn’s distant moon Phoebe, according to Space.com. It turns out astronomers have long suspected the presence of this ring because of the color of another one of the planet’s moons, Iapetus. Iapetus has one dark side and one light side; some scientists figured that it could be debris dust from Phoebe, since the composition was very similar, according to the report.

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