Saturn's rippling rings point to massive, soupy core hidden inside

"The findings might challenge established models of the formation of gas giants."

My observation, an important comment here. Other reports are out on this too, Saturn makes waves in its own rings, https://phys.org/news/2021-08-saturn.html This is an important statement near the end. "In addition, the findings pose challenges to current models of gas giant formation, which hold that rocky cores form first and then attract large envelopes of gas. If the cores of the planets are indeed fuzzy as the study indicates, the planets might instead incorporate gas earlier in the process." My note. Saturn's ring system is also reported very young too, perhaps < 100 million years old in various reports. Saturn's core size is larger than previously modeled, larger exoplanets like the inventory of exoplanets larger than Jupiter now, pose issues for model explanations as to how they formed or when they formed, perhaps. https://forums.space.com/threads/as...d-be-star-to-understand-super-jupiters.41906/
 
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