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SATURN’S RIPPLING RINGS POINT TO A MASSIVE, SOUPY CORE HIDDEN INSIDE

Saturn’s rings aren’t just a beautiful adornment; scientists can use them to understand what’s happening deep inside the planet. By using the famous rings like a seismograph, scientists studied processes in the planet’s interior, determining that its core must be ’fuzzy’.

Instead of a solid

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