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Bishop Rings are a common type of habitat in the fictional universe of the Orion's Arm worldbuilding project; [4] their radius varies from as little as 100 km to as much as 1000 km (62–620 mi). The eponymous Halo ring installations of the Halo video game series are essentially Bishop Rings with slightly divergent proportions.
A halo (from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs) 'threshing floor, disk') [1] is an optical phenomenon produced by light (typically from the Sun or Moon) interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Halos can have many forms, ranging from colored or white rings to arcs and spots in the sky.
False color image of the halo ring obtained by Galileo in forward-scattered light. The halo ring is the innermost and the vertically thickest Jovian ring. Its outer edge coincides with the inner boundary of the main ring approximately at the radius 122 500 km (1.72 R J). [2] [5] From this radius the ring becomes rapidly thicker towards Jupiter.
Jupiter's ring system was the third to be discovered, when it was first observed by the Voyager 1 probe in 1979, [11] and was observed more thoroughly by the Galileo orbiter in the 1990s. [12] Its four main parts are a faint thick torus known as the "halo"; a thin, relatively bright main ring; and two wide, faint "gossamer rings". [13]
A Bishop Ring, Halo or Orbital is a space habitat similar to but much smaller than a Niven Ring. Instead of being centered on a star, it is in orbit around the star and its diameter is typically on the order of magnitude of a planet. By tilting the ring relative to its orbit, the inner surface would experience a nearly conventional day and ...
Glory around the shadow of a plane. The position of the glory's centre shows that the observer was in front of the wings. A glory is an optical phenomenon, resembling an iconic saint's halo around the shadow of the observer's head, caused by sunlight or (more rarely) moonlight interacting with the tiny water droplets that comprise mist or clouds.
A large metallic ring suspected to be debris from space crashed in southern Kenya’s Mukuku village on Monday, the country’s space agency said.. Villagers discovered the “red and hot” ring ...
22° halo around the Sun 22° halo around the Moon. A 22° halo is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a halo with an apparent diameter of approximately 22° around the Sun or Moon. Around the Sun, it may also be called a sun halo. [1] Around the Moon, it is also known as a moon ring, storm ring, or winter halo.