Saturn's Rings Finally Explained After 400 Years

Saturn's ring formation has been a mystery since Galileo first discovered them in 1610. Now, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, using data from NASA's Cassini mission, suggest the planet's rings could be from an ancient, missing moon, Chrysalis.

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[ameliawarfield]

A very informative video of the rings of Saturn.

[johndd]

I always thought the rings are a broken up moon, or from one that didn't form (a failed moon).

Great vid! 🙂👍

[cyankirkpatrick]

I'm a Pisces and Saturn and Neptune are strong in my charts 🤦🏻‍♀️

[andresbritogalindo]

Fantistic explanation. I just love this channel. Congrats!

[cyankirkpatrick]

Well, could the same thing could have happened to Uranus, tilted it and destroyed one of it's moon's as well?

[Methstreams]

Rings are the 7 ceiling domed layered earth.

[josephpacchetti]

Interesting, After one of the Voyager Probes imaged the planet It was said that the rings consisted of dust and Ice, Last night I saw some Webb images of Neptune and It had rings as well, Thank you for posting this informative video, Have a great and Safe weekend everyone. 👍

[davidvaughn]

Hmmm... didn't know they (the Rings) were only 10m thick! Amazing!!! Also, I've often wondered why other planets' satellites are collectively called "moons", which is the name we've given our satellite. Don't they have unique names and should collectively called satellites?

[jasoncox]

I love watching ur videos there so interesting love it 💯

[PlanetSaturn.]

This is very nice video about the planet has most colorful and most beautiful ring system on universe 👍

[tinkmarshino]

100 m.y. Heck I got plenty of time for my close up pictures, , I bet that Wisdom guy got a lot of grief growing up.. Still I am a uranus and neptune fan.. But the big guys are cool to.. don't want to hurt and feeling now.. thanks brother..

[muntee]

No. The planets are the rings of sol. The stars (spiral arms) are the rings of the Milky way...

[bellaong]

Saturn's ring were formed wen
Saturn has a extra moon
It's orbiting just too close
Too close to saturn
And the ice moon break into peaces
And saturn's ring is formed

[bellaong]

Saturn's ring's are huge that...
It's bigger than our planet...
It's miles is 6.5369

[ronaldkemp]

The rings are not remnants of a moon. The rings are made of elementary particles that pop into existence via pair production theory. According to the theory pairs of particles emerge out of the radioactive energy when it meets resistance. You know, when it strikes something or comes to a rest relative to the motion of the body making the rings. Energy cannot be destroyed. So instead energy converts into elementary particles or tiny bundles of energy (m=E/c²). When the particles emerge they are hot and contain an electrical charge, one positive the other negative hence the name pair production.

In 2004 before Cassini got to Saturn the pair production theory predicted the rings would be younger than Saturn. The youngest rings according to the theory would be found furthest from Saturn while the oldest rings would be located close to Saturn. So, the rings would become gradually younger and younger the further away from Saturn they formed. The rings should be hot, between 50, 000° F and 100, 000° F. They should be easily detected by infrared telescopes like the JWST. As the rings get older they condense into moons. The moons don't form before the rings. The ring material gathers and becomes a moon over time.

The same thing was proposed for the planets in our solar system. All radioactive planets and stars produce rings around them slowly over time. Every one of the planets in our solar system reside in a ring of debris around the sun. Research Voyager 1 photo of Earth, you'll see the Earth is located inside of a ring of debris orbiting the sun. The planets slowly grow in mass over time. The oldest ring produced Mercury and the newest ring is located in the Kuiper Belt.

Pluto is the youngest dwarf planet in our solar system and Mercury is the oldest. Evidence to this is in the amount of impact craters on their surfaces. The amount of impact craters indicates how long the body has been collecting asteroids and such. Mercury has the most impact craters of all the planets in the solar system. Therefore it is the oldest. Pluto has little to few impact craters indicating it is young. The Kuiper belt objects have no impact craters indicating they are younger than Pluto. The bodies get younger and younger the further they are from the sun, just as predicted by the pair production theory.

The key to this theory being shown correct is if infrared telescopes are able to see the rings. The rings if they are produced via pair production will be hot. So, infrared telescopes will be able to spot them. If the rings are hot then they won't be able to explain it because they would have already cooled off long ago. If the rings are hot then it means the pair production theory is correct.

This doesn't violate the laws of physics because the energy from the radioactive bodies are converting into matter.

"Research suggests" means nothing without actual evidence. They are merely guessing. That's not very scientific. Point the JWST at the ring material and see if they're hot. If they are hot then the moon collision theory will be debunked. Hot rings will be empirical evidence that the rings formed slowly over time through pair production. If the pair production theory is correct then the Infrared telescope should be able to detect new hot rings forming extremely far away from the Jovian planets and the sun. The new material forming in the Kuiper belt will be hot too. NASA won't be able to explain how the particles can be so hot, 100, 000° F while located some 120 AU away from the sun. Yet that is what the pair production theory predicts. What kind of predictions can theorists make if the rings were produced by moons colliding? The rings would not be completely surrounding the planet if they were produced by asteroids colliding with moons.

Remember, infrared telescopes detect thermal radiation. Not cold dust. Infrared telescope can see right through cold dust, but cannot see through hot dust. So the fact that the James Webb Space Telescope is able to detect the rings indicates the rings are hot. Ask a NASA employee why the rings are hot and not cold if they formed so long ago?