Picture a sheet of paper stretched from here to the Moon.
Picture a sheet of paper stretched from here to the Moon — that gives you a rough sense of Saturn's rings. They span roughly 280,000 kilometres across, most of the distance between Earth and its Moon, yet in many places they are only around ten metres thick. Ten metres. That's a generous living room ceiling. If you scaled the rings down to the width of an A4 page, the thickness would be many times finer than a human hair. They're made almost entirely of water ice — everything from tiny dust grains to chunks the size of a house — drifting in an impossibly flat disc. And they won't last. Over tens of millions of years they'll gradually disperse. We happen to exist at just the right moment to see them. Follow Deep Field Vault and we'll keep finding the universe's stranger corners.