Telescope discovers new Saturn ring

[gingerpaul]

I thought this was quite interesting. It's amazing what can be found if you use different technologies to look at things.

http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article.aspx?cp-docum...

[Eric Mc]

Interesting. They were talking about the spitzer telescope on the Sky at Night this week.

[The Black Flash]

Pretty cool, cheers
More in-depth article here http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n0910/07satring/

[Stu R]

Was just going to start a thread on this.


Truly amazing discovery, talk about vast diameters!


For those interested in space telescopes or spitzer http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/about/index.shtml

[Eric Mc]

It looks like the reason behind the two different coloured hemispheres of Iapetus can be explained by this ring.

Which is great, but it's not as dramatic as the reason proposed by Arthur C Clarke in the novel version of "2001: A Space Odyssey".