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From album
Songs in the Key of Life
Stevie Wonder · 1976
Details
TonalidadG
Compás4/4
Tempo129 BPM
Duración4:53
ÁlbumSongs in the Key of Life
Año1976
ISRCUSUMG0000366
Fun facts
Saturn is a planet that makes you think about big things, but not as much as it seems. It is in the sixth position if you are counting from the Sun, and although it is the second largest in the system, it still has a long way to go to catch up with Jupiter. Its size is so huge that its average radius is almost 9 times that of Earth, but its density is only an eighth of ours. What is curious is that, despite being almost the same size as Jupiter, it has less than a third of its mass. What is certainly true is that it moves in a very distant orbit, about 9.59 light-years away from the Sun, and it takes more than 29 years to complete one full revolution.
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The story behind
Stevie Wonder wrote Saturn as a song that resembles a poem's lyrics, as if it were a portrait of a planet. It speaks of Saturn as if it were a living being, with a heart, a ring system, and a body made of gas. The song describes the planet as if it were a giant, with an atmosphere that shines in yellow tones, and an internal structure that includes layers of hydrogen and helium. It is not just a planet, it is a story of how it forms and moves through space. The song feels like a journey, as if you were looking at the sky and listening to the whisper of a distant world.
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