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An Ancient Merger Could Have Created Titan and the Debris Created Saturn's Rings

February 17, 2026
An Ancient Merger Could Have Created Titan and the Debris Created Saturn's Rings
By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/LoyKgGz)

The Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Titan framed by Saturn and its rings. New research highlights Titan's important role in shaping the Saturnian system. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

New research presents a timeline for recent (astronomically speaking) events in the Saturnian system. It shows that Titan collided with a proto-Hyperion, and the collision smoothed Titan's surface while some of the debris accreted onto a new Hyperion and also created Saturn's rings. The research can also explain some of the Saturnian system's other unusual characteristics.



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