FAQ About Christiaan Huygens
What was Christiaan Huygens’ role in the discovery of Saturn’s rings?
Christiaan Huygens was the first to propose that Saturn was surrounded by a ring after carefully studying the planet through improved telescopes. His observations in the 1650s led him to correctly theorize that Saturn's ring system was made up of a thin, flat collection of particles, rather than a solid body, as was previously thought.
