Will Saturn Lose Its Rings?

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Saturn’s rings are truly magnificent to behold and an immense source of wonder to astronomers, yet those magnificent icy structures won’t last forever. Micrometeorites from space and solar radiation interact with Saturn’s rings to disrupt them and make them electric, binding them together along invisible magnetic field lines that lead them straight towards Saturn’s atmosphere…

When Will Saturn Lose Its Rings?

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Saturn’s iconic rings are disintegrating rapidly. That is because their age was underestimated, causing tons of mass to evaporate every second. Astronomers estimate that Saturn’s rings will only remain visible for another 100 million years or so, according to stargazers’ research. To witness them one last time, stargazers should view Saturn when its rings are…