Saturn's "spoke season" is a fascinating phenomenon that happens on its rings. These spokes are mysterious, dark, radial features that appear on Saturn's rings, resembling the spokes of a wheel. They show up when Saturn's equinox is approaching, which is about every 15 Earth years. Scientists think they might be caused by Saturn's magnetic field interacting with ring particles, but they're still not entirely sure. It's one of those cool space mysteries that keeps astronomers scratching their heads and looking up in awe. Credit: An Infrared View of Saturn: NASA Hubble – https://flic.kr/p/2e6EEiR, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Infrared_View_of_Saturn.jpg Inner solar system: Pablo Carlos Budassi, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inner_solar_system_objects_top_view_for_wiki.png NASA, ESA, STScI, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC) NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), the OPAL Team, and J. DePasquale Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Joseph DePasquale (STScI) NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University Animation is created by Bright Side. #brightside —————————————————————————————- Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz —————————————————————————————- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru —————————————————————————————- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me

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