Saturn’s rings will disappear later this month, and there’s a very bizarre reason why, which has been explained by scientists.

Taking you way back to science classes at school now, but you may have learnt that Saturn is made up of chunks of ice, as well as rock and dust.

It was astronomer Galileo Galilei who discovered the gigantic rings way back in 1610 and they have been observed and looked at ever since.

At one point, scientists believed that it would take approximately 300 million years for them to disappear completely.

In fact, data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft back in 2017 revealed it’s expected to actually take 100 million years for the rings to disappear permanently.

Saturn’s rings will melt away thanks to the Sun’s UV radiation and other meteoroids colliding with the rings and causing the ice particles to vaporise.

Of course, scientists are predicting that to be far in the future, but from later this month, Saturn’s iconic rings will no longer be visible from Earth.

This is set to happen in two weeks on March 23, but what is the actual science behind it?

Saturn’s rings can normally be seen with a small telescope, but the planet will soon tilt in a way that means the rings will be out of view.

IFL Science reports the ‘angle of tilt’ will ‘drop to zero when it gets to 23 March, 2025’, but fear not, the rings will later return to our view.

Such phenomenon takes place every 29.5 years, which is the time in takes for Saturn to orbit the Sun.

On top of this, scientists remain perplexed by large smudges – dubbed ‘spokes’ by NASA – appearing on Saturn’s rings every 15 years or so.

Experts and scientists are now working hard to garner a deeper understanding of exactly what is going on.

NASA planetary scientist Amy Simon said: “Thanks to Hubble’s OPAL program, which is building an archive of data on the outer solar system planets, we will have longer dedicated time to study Saturn’s spokes this season than ever before.”

As for seeing Saturn’s rings again, scientists say the rings will be at its brightest and best to see from Earth on 21 September, but be warned that they will disappear once more in November.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak didn’t hold back as he reflected on Elon Musk’s influence on Donald Trump’s administration.

In case you haven’t paid any attention to US politics for the last couple months… Elon Musk is basically everywhere.

The Tesla CEO and billionaire was in the news a lot over the years following his acquisition of Twitter, but he has been in the spotlight even more so (if possible) since he allied with Donald Trump.

Despite not being an elected official, Musk appears to be influencing Trump’s administration, at least in an advisory capacity, and the billionaire has taken plenty of flack for this.

Most recently Wozniak has made it clear how he feels about this situation.

The 74-year-old who, founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976, spoke to hundreds of attendees at Barcelona’s Talent Arena developers fair on March 4 and took issue with Big Tech getting way to caught up in politics.

However, he did acknowledge that due to major tech companies being so big, they have a clear interest in lobbying politicians.

Wozniak said: “Technology companies are huge, they’re huge and [because they are] worth that much money, they have to have some political involvement.

“But actually taking a direct role because they’ve made it big in technology, I don’t like that at all.

As he began to criticize Musk, he also added that ‘the skills of politics are very different than the skills for technology companies to have success.’

He continued: “When you run a business, you look around and you look for a consensus. If half your employees feel one way and half the other way, you negotiate, you compromise.

“I don’t see that happening in the case of Elon Musk… you don’t just say everything is out and start fresh.”

And since leading DOGE (Department of Government Spending) Musk hasn’t been shy about making waves among the status quo when it comes to government.

Late last month, he sent an email to all US federal staff and suggested that those who didn’t reply would be fired.

The email demanded that workers outline five tasks they’d completed in the last week with a deadline of 11.59pm on Monday or their failure to respond would be taken as a resignation.

Musk later explained the email on Twitter and said: “This was basically a check to see if the employee had a pulse and was capable of replying to an email.

“Lot of people in for a rude awakening and strong dose of reality. They don’t get it yet, but they will.”