Image: Infrared Ring Around Saturn
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Description: This diagram highlights a slice of Saturn's largest ring. The ring (red band in inset photo) was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which detected infra-red light, or heat, from the dusty ring material. Spitzer viewed the ring edge-on from its Earth-trailing orbit around the sun.
Title: Infrared Ring Around Saturn
Credit: Spitzer Space Telescope Newsroom
Author: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA
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