When it was discovered in 2009, scientists knew the newest ring around Saturn was big. Now, they can say just how large. It's the biggest in the solar system. In a study Wednesday in Nature ...

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The largest ring around Saturn is actually bigger than scientists ever imaginged, making it 7,000 times larger than Saturn itself, scientists say. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

Saturn’s biggest ring just broke its own record. Scientists have found that the planet’s Phoebe ring is more than twice the thickness once thought – even though it can’t be seen with the ...

The Phoebe ring takes up as much space as about 7,000 Saturns, most of it pieces of dust smaller than the width of a human hair. Saturn's biggest ring is weird, invisible and really, really big - CNET ...

Saturn’s biggest ring just broke its own record. Scientists have found that the planet’s Phoebe ring is more than twice the thickness once thought — even though it can’t be seen with the ...

According to the team, the Phoebe ring is 270 times the size of Saturn and over 10 times larger than Saturn's E ring. That E Ring is the second largest ring system in the solar system.

Saturn’s newest halo is thick, too — its vertical height is about 20 times the diameter of the planet. It would take about one billion Earths stacked together to fill the ring.

SEE ALSO: Saturn's rings fan out beautifully in new photo "Appearances can be deceiving," Phil Nicholson, co-author of a study about the discovery in the journal Icarus , said in a statement .

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