The mysterious ‘radial spots’ of Saturn’s rings are back, and it is not yet known what causes them

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The Hubble Space Telescope captures the strange spokes that, like those of a bicycle wheel, periodically cross the rings announcing the change of seasons on the planet

The image, taken by Voyager 2 in 1981, shows some of the mysterious radial spots on Saturn’s rings. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Jose Manuel Nieves

A new series of Hubble Space Telescope images of Saturn has revealed the presence of a series of strange dark spots traversing the planet’s rings. Its distribution is reminiscent of the spokes of a bicycle wheel and, despite the fact that the phenomenon …

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