There's so much in the night sky to look at.

From planets and their moons to shining stars and distant galaxies.

Every celestial object is fascinating.

But Saturn in particular is mesmerizing because of its unique rings.

They look solid, but are they?

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all have rings, but Saturn's rings are the most famous, so let's use them as our example.

The rings around Saturn are made up of big chunks of ice, rock and dust floating in space.

They're kept circling around the planet by the pull of gravity, a force that attracts smaller objects to one with larger mass.

That's right.

It's not just Earth that has gravity.

Some scientists believe that the rings were formed when a giant moon made of ice broke up near Saturn.

Whatever it is that created them, the objects were pulled in while traveling through space at a rapid speed.

That speed is what keeps the rings from falling into Saturn.

Now Saturn is big.

It's nine times wider than the Earth, and the rings are absolutely gigantic.

Think about this.

Some of the objects floating in the rings might be as small as a speck of dust, but they could be as big as a bus or even a mountain.

Unfortunately, that means you can't necessarily run on the rings of planets because they're not solid.

They're made up of all of these objects.

You could, however, maybe jump from rock to rock.

You just need to figure out how to get up into space in the first place.

And then I guess charting your jumps would be pretty complicated.

You know, there may be better uses for science, but that does sound pretty fun.

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