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The former was named the η ring. The latter were dubbed rings 4, 5 and 6—according to the numbering of the occultation events in one paper. [8] Uranus' ring system was the second to be discovered in the Solar System, after that of Saturn. [9]
Rings, moons, storms and a bright polar cap all shine in a new image of Uranus captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The largest is located twice as far from Uranus as the previously known rings. These new rings are so far from Uranus that they are called the "outer" ring system. Hubble also spotted two small satellites, one of which, Mab, shares its orbit with the outermost newly discovered ring. The new rings bring the total number of Uranian rings to 13. [162]
Rings of Uranus This page was last edited on 11 March 2018, at 16:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Saturn is well known as the planet with rings, but it's hardly the only one. As it turns out, rings around planets aren't all that rare, and at least a few of the planets in our solar system have ...
Illustrations depict how Uranus' magnetosphere, or protective bubble, was behaving before Voyager 2's arrival (left) and during the spacecraft's flyby (right).
The two innermost moons, Cordelia and Ophelia, are shepherds of Uranus's ε ring, whereas the small moon Mab is a source of Uranus's outermost μ ring. [12] There may be two additional small (2–7 km in radius) undiscovered shepherd moons located about 100 km exterior to Uranus's α and β rings. [24]
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