This ringed giant is most likely familiar to you all. Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, the second largest in our solar system and one of the more easily recognisable planets.
It is a gas giant like its neighbours and its rings are composed of small pieces of rock thought to be from a moon that collided with something long ago. The planet itself is composed of gas which is less dense than water which means that the entire planet could float in a big enough bowl and titan, its largest moon, is thought to be a potential harbour for non earthlike life, due to anomalies observed in the atmosphere and probes will be sent in the near future to investigate.
It might be one of the more easily recognised planets, but, like the rest of our vast, vast universe, there is still a lot about it that most people do not know.
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