Constellation✨ on Instagram: "✨🌌 Have you ever heard of Pan, the tiny “space nut” that orbits Saturn? 🪐 Discovered in 1990, Pan is a tiny natural satellite (about 35 km in diameter! ) that lives inside Saturn’s ring A, precisely in the Encke division. Its bizarre shape - reminiscent of a dumpling, hazelnut, or even a UFO - comes from the material of the rings that accumulate on its surface. Pan acts like a “cosmic shepherd”: his gravity keeps the Encke division clean, preventing the particles