US EditionAstronomers discover an evolving ring system forming around Chiron
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Astronomers discover an evolving ring system forming around Chiron
For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus has now stolen a little of that spotlight. A new paper released in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reports that Chiron, a 200-kilometer-wide centaur object, has its own system of complex rings and a huge equatorial disk of dust and ice. The finding offers the best view to date of this distant mysterious world and sheds l…
The discovery, for the first time ever, of the first ring system formed around a small space object, is as important as the historical discovery of Saturn's famous rings. The ringing system, consisting of four major rings and a cloud of materials spread around it, is surrounded by a mysterious space crime called Chiron, a Centaurs, a small ice crime in the solar system that is one of the most mysterious and interesting to scientists that combine…
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