NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Spies Mysterious Object At Edge Of Saturn's Rings

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted an object located right at the edge of Saturn's A ring that is confounding scientists. Its name? Peggy, after astronomer Carl Murray's mother-in-law.

This strange something was spotted by accident on April 15 when Cassini's cameras were aimed at a tiny moon named Prometheus that orbits just inside another of Saturn's rings. A member of the mission's imaging team, astronomer Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London, noticed an odd kink at the A ring's edge that jutted outward.