Glad you asked! (If you didn’t ask, just read the title out loud. Hey, thanks for asking!) I’ve got the first part of the answer for you over at Rosetta Stones. This has turned into a mini-series. Also, I had way too much fun making images of the ring with the Seahawks app.
I even made the cat participate:
Look, it’s shiny and I can’t help myself.
Alas, I had no place to put this amazing picture of the Moon when it was just a ring around the Earth.
You can watch a video of it here. And Seed Magazine had a neato article. This space stuff is neat – especially as it relates to geology!
In a mere three billion years the Andromeda galaxy and our Milky Way galaxy will collide. What are you doing about this impending catastrophe?
Not a bad primer at all! And probably a compelling angle for a lot of folks.
If you wish to obtain a Super Bowl ring, you must first invent the universe.