JPL Announces Discovery of Largest Saturnian Ring
Today, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced the discovery of the largest known ring system around Saturn, the second largest planet in our Solar System, and it's quite intriguing.
This new belt lies extremely far from the gas giant, beginning around 3.7 million miles (6 million kilometers) away from the planet and continues outward for roughly another 7.4 million miles (12 million kilometers). This ring is extremely thick as well, being 20 times the diameter of the planet. Phoebe, one of Saturn's farthest orbiting moons, circles within this newly found ring, and is likely the source of the rings material.
The information I have presented here is only a very little bit of the data collected from this new discovery. For more information please see the official press release.