Saturn Put A Ring On It Relatively Recently, Study Says

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed Saturn on June 6, 2018.

A new study shows that Saturn’s rings are only 10 million to 100 million years old, much younger than the planet itself.

(Image credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC) and the OPAL Team, and J. DePasquale (STScI))