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We all love dinosaurs and Saturn right?, but have we ever thought of comparing them with the Saturn system? Well, at first these two look like incomparable but then comes the age! Yes, their age , one seems to be younger than the other .
A recent study has shown that those rings , which earlier we thought had been formed at the birth of the Solar System, might had come into existence after the death of dinosaurs on Earth. Actually there is no relation between these two events, it is just that the study is using a point in time i.e. the time of wiping out of dinosaurs and relating it an event that might had occurred roughly at the same time.
The researchers at the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI), claimed that the outer rings of the 6th planet might be as young as a 100 million years, this seems to be a large span of time for a layman, but it is nothing when compared to the age of the universe, that;s why it has been referred as young.
At first, this may not seem to be interesting , I myself didn't find it worth but then I understood what implications it could have on our study of our home - The Solar System. We might be able to understand the emergence of life in a better way by comparing the difference between the structure of those inner and outer rings, due to the difference in ages. It might help us understand the existence of these rings and may answer a mysterious question i.e. " Can our Moon form such rings around our planet" and this doesn't end here , because a new finding makes way for a thousand new ones.
That's it for now, will meet you in my next post till then stay fit and don't forget to subscribe to The Mysterious Cosmos.
written by
Aviral Srivastava
find me on Instagram : avirals_22
email me at: aviralsrivastava12@gmail.com
We all love dinosaurs and Saturn right?, but have we ever thought of comparing them with the Saturn system? Well, at first these two look like incomparable but then comes the age! Yes, their age , one seems to be younger than the other .
A recent study has shown that those rings , which earlier we thought had been formed at the birth of the Solar System, might had come into existence after the death of dinosaurs on Earth. Actually there is no relation between these two events, it is just that the study is using a point in time i.e. the time of wiping out of dinosaurs and relating it an event that might had occurred roughly at the same time.
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| Artist's conception of Saturn and its rings |
At first, this may not seem to be interesting , I myself didn't find it worth but then I understood what implications it could have on our study of our home - The Solar System. We might be able to understand the emergence of life in a better way by comparing the difference between the structure of those inner and outer rings, due to the difference in ages. It might help us understand the existence of these rings and may answer a mysterious question i.e. " Can our Moon form such rings around our planet" and this doesn't end here , because a new finding makes way for a thousand new ones.
That's it for now, will meet you in my next post till then stay fit and don't forget to subscribe to The Mysterious Cosmos.
written by
Aviral Srivastava
find me on Instagram : avirals_22
email me at: aviralsrivastava12@gmail.com
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