The beautiful rings of Saturn are slowly vanishing.
According to The Atlantic, the observable process of ring rain is one of the main things we know about this mysterious planet.
The rings around the planet seem to us to be a constant, but recent analysis from NASA suggests they may be young.
A prevailing theory is that if they are as young as they seem, they are the result of one of the older moons getting too.
The rings vanishing act is likely to take 300 million years.
James O'Donaghue, a planetary scientist with the Japanese Space Agency, said that the idea that the rings of Saturn will one day be gone is new.
The JAXA scientist said that there is something of a silver lining.
He said he was happy that they were lucky enough to see them.
The long goodbye to the rings of the moon.
Scientists have found a decades-old mystery behind the glow on Saturn.
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