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RINGS OF SATURN


Credit : NASA

In 1675 the French astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini brought to light the fragmentation of the ring of Saturn. He watched in fact two distinct rings, separated by a dark area, which is referred now as the Cassini division.

Later other rings will be discovered, space probes showing thousands of small concentric rings.