Saturn has a much bigger gassy and 'slushy' core than first thought

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Hidden inside the solar system’s god of plenty is an unexpected bounty: Saturn’s mammoth core, spanning up to 60 percent of the planet’s width. The newly measured core, revealed through subtle waves in Saturn’s rings, appears to be ice, rock, and gas, blended into a soupy mass with blurry edges.

“It’s huge,” says Chris Mankovich of the California Institute of Technology, one of the authors of a new study describing Saturn’s core in the journal Nature Astronomy. “It’s definitely not something we expected to find.”

The characteristics of Saturn’s immense heart have scientists rethinking how the ringed planet may have formed, and how it generates its strangely uniform magnetic field. “It’s just more complex than we thought was going to be the case,” says Johns Hopkins University’s Sabine Stanley, who was not part of the new study.

To scrutinize Saturn’s innards, scientists turned to the planet’s rings, which act like a seismograph and record the gas giant’s internal sloshing and pulsing. By decoding subtle ripples in the rings, the team learned that Saturn’s nucleus is packed with 17 Earths worth of material, and that it isn’t a discrete, compact hunk of rock and iron as expected.

“It’s really hard to learn anything about the deepest parts of a planet, especially the giant planets,” Stanley says. “Any information we can get improves what we knew before.”

Source - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ripples-in-saturns-rings-reveal-the-planets-giant-slushy-core

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Saturn irl like

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Saturn sounds like one of my aunt that only visits during Thanksgiving, she is also that, you know, bigger and gassy. 

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3 minutes ago, bionic said:

Saturn irl like

He's in his Perfect Illusion era.

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5 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

Saturn sounds like one of my aunt that only visits during Thanksgiving, she is also that, you know, bigger and gassy. 

And every time you see her you say "wow you look good, have you lost weight?" even though you know that her mass has doubled  

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when I have a gassy and slushy core nobody cares.. but when SATURN has a gassy and slushy core it makes headlines..  the double standard i swear

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11 minutes ago, bionic said:

And every time you see her you say "wow you look good, have you lost weight?" even though you know that her mass has doubled  

True. But I luv ha anyway, cos she made some mean pie 

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“It’s huge,” says Chris Mankovich of the California Institute of Technology ...“It’s definitely not something we expected to find.”

gotten that comment before 

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Bitch me too wtf

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35 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

“It’s huge,”

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18 minutes ago, lasagna said:

when I have a gassy and slushy core nobody cares.. but when SATURN has a gassy and slushy core it makes headlines..  the double standard i swear

We all can’t be Saturn 

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51 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

Saturn sounds like one of my aunt that only visits during Thanksgiving, she is also that, you know, bigger and gassy. 

Does she have several rings too? 

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Saturn is a bottom confirmedT!

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32 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

Does she have several rings too? 

Perhaps, in her drawers