Saturn's magnetic field forms a cavity in the solar wind that extends roughly 20 Saturn radii towards the Sun and stretches several hundreds of radii away from the Sun in a magnetotail. The size of the planet and rings are exaggerated by a factor of two for illustration purposes. Credit: Nature. Click to enlarge.

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