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How do planets get rings?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How Many Rings Are There Total?

The volume of Saturn is dominated by these rings, which are the biggest thing in the Saturn system. Scientists were surprised to see that the components of the rings were still sort of sharp. If they'd been there for a long, long time, you would expect them to bump into each other. All the radiation from Saturn would have weathered them a little bit.

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