Tuesday, September 14, 2010

THE DISCOVERY OF SATURN'S RINGS

Saturn's rings found
 Month in June 1610 the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, managed to see objects that surround Saturn.
In his paper, Galileo wrote Saturn may have some kind of arms that periodically appear and then disappear again.  
The riddle was finally answered when the Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens, using more modern telescope Galileo found that these views are rings that surround Saturn.  
Until now, the composition of Saturn's rings are still not known with certainty, but which obviously contain plenty of water.  
The existence of rings around Saturn, making it into the planet's most beautiful planets in the solar system.