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Saturn Really Is That Girl


Kacey Musgraves, Ariana Grande, and SZA are all singing about the planet in 2024. An astronomer explains why.

Millions of miles away sits a giant gas queen, and here on Earth, the pop girls are noticing and putting a ring on it. Pamela Gay, an astronomer and senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute, has a few ideas about why Saturn became the “It” girl of the music season: “It was really bright last summer, and NASA is doing a good job at popularizing our planets.” Here’s a quote that piqued my interest: “Saturn comes along and hits you over the head and says, ‘Wake up.’ It’s time for you to get real about life and sort out who you really are.” Is this logic you can compute?

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