Give it some sparkle 💍⁣ ⁣ A rainbow of color is visible on Saturn’s rings in this image captured by the NASASolarSystem Cassini spacecraft’s wide-angle camera on June 12, 2007, when it was 325,000 miles (523,000 km) from Saturn. The halo of light moving across Saturn’s sunlit rings created an opposition effect, or an artifact and by-product of the spot’s movement and the way the color image was produced.⁣ ⁣ Cassini acquired color images by taking sequential exposures using red, green, and blue spectra filters which are then combined to form a color view. The bright patch traveled across the rings between exposures taken for this view, creating a series of three colorful spots showing the bright patch’s position at three separate moments.⁣ ⁣ Image description: The rings of Saturn intersect this image, arcing downwards from left to right, with the yellowish gas giant looming in the background. At the center of one of the bands of rings is a small spot of light that glows in rainbow ...