X Ray Saturn . ... CXC , NASA Explanation: Above, the ringed planet Saturn shines in x-rays . Otherwise beyond the range of human vision, the eerie x-ray view was created by overlaying a computer generated outline of the gas giant's disk and ring system on a false-color picture of smoothed, reconstructed x-ray data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory. The data represents the first detection of Saturn at x-ray energies and held some surprises for researchers. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...