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Saturno es conocido como el \u2018se\u00f1or de los anillos\u2019, aunque los otros tres planetas gigantes gaseosos \u2014J\u00fapiter, Urano y Neptuno\u2014 tambi\u00e9n tienen anillos. El sistema de Saturno ocupa un lugar destacado, ya que sus anillos son extremadamente brillantes y muy grandes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Podr\u00edan ser los restos de un sat\u00e9lite o de un cometa que se desintegr\u00f3. Cuando se descubrieron en el siglo XVII, los dibujos los representaban como unas enormes \u2018orejas de Mickey Mouse\u2019 a ambos lados del planeta. A medida que los telescopios fueron mejorando, los astr\u00f3nomos se dieron cuenta de que est\u00e1n formados por millones de fragmentos de hielo y roca. Los huecos en los anillos se han despejado gracias a la gravedad de las lunas cercanas.<\/p>\n

Formando como un gigantesco disco compacto, los anillos planos tienen un di\u00e1metro de m\u00e1s de 275.000 km, anchura suficiente para cubrir casi toda la distancia entre la Tierra y la Luna, pero menos de 1 km de espesor. A medida que Saturno y la Tierra se desplazan hacia arriba y abajo en sus \u00f3rbitas, nuestra visi\u00f3n de los anillos cambia. En 2003, estaban en su punto m\u00e1s brillante y la observaci\u00f3n era \u00f3ptima. Sin embargo, cada 15 a\u00f1os los vemos de canto. Entonces son invisibles para la mayor\u00eda de los telescopios, excepto para los m\u00e1s potentes. Es una buena \u00e9poca para buscar lunas peque\u00f1as cerca de los anillos.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturn is famous as the ‘lord of the rings’, even though the other three giant gas planets \u2013 Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune \u2013 also have rings. Saturn’s system takes pride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2004\/12\/night_side_ringplane2\/17897569-2-eng-GB\/Night_Side_Ringplane.jpg","esa_banner_description":"Saturn's rings seen by Cassini-Huygens","esa_banner_credit":"NASA\/JPL\/Space Science Institute","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2004\/12\/Night_Side_Ringplane2","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[10,11,12],"tags":[2],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn","category-our-universe","category-planets-and-moons","tag-background-article"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}