In 2025 you will not see Saturn's rings

If you look out on March 23, 2025 to see Saturn, the only thing you will see is a sphere without rings, not even a sphere because among all the planets Saturn is the widest at the equator, the fattest, so what You will see it will be an oval planet without rings.

And surely you already imagined why, it has to do with the thickness of the Rings, their rings are extremely thin with an average of 20 m thick, something that measures 20 m at the distance that Saturn is located is practically invisible, when the plane of Their rings coincide with our point of view from Earth. The Rings disappear.

The last time this happened was in 2009 and surely space telescopes like Hubble and James Web are going to document that moment because it is perfect for observing what surrounds the rings, at a time like this they discovered several of their moons.

A curious fact is that Saturn has the largest number of known moons in the solar system, up to this moment 146 have been found, exceeding by 51 the number of moons that Jupiter has, so it would not be unusual for a few more to be discovered during this event.

On March 23, 2025, only the most powerful telescopes will be able to observe some of the dust near the Rings and their small moons while they will be invisible to the rest and then as the days go by the Rings will little by little reappear, letting us see their other side.

Now it's time for the bad news, Saturn's rings are, in fact, disappearing not from our point of view as will happen in 2025, but because its ice is continually falling on Saturn, the amount of material lost from the rings is two pools Olympics in the form of rain every hour, at that rate Saturn will run out of rings within 300 million years.

In other words, it won't touch us, this means that the fact that at this moment we can look through a telescope and enjoy Saturn's rings is fortunate, because the rings are temporary, something that happens from time to time. when to the gas giant planets and that only lasts a few hundred million years.

An enormous period of time compared to our lives, but small considering the age of the planets, there were terrestrial animals that did not have to see Saturn with its rings, but perhaps they did see a Jupiter with rings that must have been spectacular, although They didn't have telescopes, they probably didn't care and it's another reason to feel lucky.

My dear reader, we existed at the same time as Saturn with rings and telescopes, what can I say, Life is good.

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