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The prominent disk (rings) around Saturn are actually composed of billions of individual particles (ice, rock and dust) that orbit the planet above its equator. These range in size from a few centimeters to several hundred meters in diameter. Some are clumps of smaller ice chunks. Saturn is not the only gas giant with rings, all of them do, but they're smaller and can't be seen as clearly.

The rapidly spinning planet exerts two forces on the rings: 1) the downward force of its gravity and 2) a vector force that aligns them along the plane of its greatest effect. The rings probably formed when comets and asteroids got too close to Saturn so they were torn apart by its strong gravity and distributed into an orbiting disk. Usually rings will exist inside a planet's Roche limit, the area where the gravitational force of the planet is too strong for debris to coalesce and form a moon.
Dusts and gases forms the ring around saturn. or the more simpeler answer, BECAUSE IT HAS.
Saturn does not really have a ring around it it is just rocks that have been pulled into the planet by the gravitational force which because the planet is so cold the rocks get caught in the 'ring' because it does

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