NASA Discovered NEW Moons Being Born in Saturn’s Rings!

When we look across the solar system hundreds of fascinating moons can be observed. The gas giant planet Saturn is the king of the moons, with over 146 known to be orbiting it. But it turns out, that within the rings of Saturn, new objects are forming, and there could be millions of them! So what caused Saturn's rings in the first place? What is causing the formation of these new worlds? and will they ever become one single large moon in the future?

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[VSPACE]

How incredible are these new worlds being formed in our solar system? Thanks for watching! I’ll see you all next time. 😊 Rob

[Nrseman]

This is the only channel that i will watch when if comes to space content. I LOVE space and i love all of these vids.

[Chill_Mode_JD]

The hexagonal spot is so trippy! Enjoyed the vid thanks Rob 🪐🔭

[SlyFrye]

Hell yes I enjoyed this video. I just never thought about the possibility of there being tiny miniature moons within Saturn's rings. This is awesome

[stevenfranks]

The riveting photographs and illustrations you use make every video a grand adventure. Thanks!

[joeviscuso]

Rob many thanks for this absolutely beautiful documentary of one of my favourite planets Saturn. Love your videos & the background music of which I love to get so when I'm out back watching the stars I play it .
Again thanks
Cheers from Australia

[cobrakaifan]

Are you ever gonna talk about part 2 of our journey into the Kuiper belt with the 4 other dwarf planets ( Orcus, Sedna, GongGong, and Quaror) you talked about the first 5 dwarf planets we need to see part 2

[KingBritish]

Great upload at the right time. Good evening from the UK V101! And all my fellow space fans 👋🏻

[GreatnationHD]

Fascinating!! Nice video Rob, long time subscriber🤙

[elleni-]

The outer planets are my favorites n there moons... absolutely love ur channel rob..👌👍💙

[QUEUK-ji]

Compared to other solar systems ours is ordered and beautiful with marvels around every planets in their own way, we are very lucky to live in a solar system like ours

[R.-.]

What confuses me about the theory that rings form from colliding moons is that I would expect the cores of the colliding moons to remain in orbit and even serve as an accretion object for the rings to coalesce again. Might some of the current Saturnian moons be the core remnant from that collision?
Also since moons generally orbit in the same direction, is it not the case that any impact is likely to be low speed surface-graze rather than a high speed moon-shattering impact? Given the above, wouldn't a moon destroying impact require a high speed collision with a non-orbiting object such as a comet?

[bazpearce]

Saturn's rings will be edge on pretty soon. Great for catching moons and their shadow transits. :)

[DebbieSuttle]

Totally awesome video nice specially the planets

[Casperthegator]

Saw the title and instantly clicked to watch!

[kingofflames]

You know what would be poetic? If the rings were caused by moon collision within the last 100mil years then there's a chance that the Chicxulub meteor was once part of a moon of Saturn.

[stevenswapp]

He named it after his mother-in-law because it is 5 kilometers wide

[kevingreen]

I have a book called Ring Makers of Saturn it tell a different story

[Rosispergia]

Amazing stuff. Now it's time to listen to the song Born under Saturn by Samael :D

[BlackFlagHeathen]

Saturn’s rings are like a beautiful, physical representation of the cycle of life and death. Gods I love space.