STRANGE LINES APPEAR IN SATURN'S RINGS

[Judi Lynn]

"IT'S A FASCINATING MAGIC TRICK OF NATURE WE ONLY SEE ON SATURN — FOR NOW AT LEAST."

Acting Up
There's something strange going on with Saturn's beautiful rings.

The gas giant experiences four seasons, much like our own except seven Earth years in length, thanks to its tilted axis. During the planet's equinox, when its rings tilt edge-on to the Sun, mysterious and fleeting new features appear in its rings called "spokes."

As NASA explains, astronomers have started referring to this period as "spoke season," something that has been observed since the early 1980s thanks to NASA's Voyager mission.

Now, the agency's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of these strange lines crossing Saturn's rings, heralding the start of the planet's most puzzling transitional period.

Spo(o)ke(y) Season
We still don't know why these mysterious spokes appear, let alone why they're seasonal in nature.

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