We know know what the famous announcement by the European Southern Observatory is. They found an asteroid with ring! Two of them!<\/p>\n
…the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings.<\/p>\n
Telescopes at seven locations in South America, including the 1.54-metre Danish and TRAPPIST telescopes at ESO\u2019s La Silla Observatory in Chile were used to make this surprise discovery in the outer Solar System.<\/p>\n
This unique finding has sparked much interest and debate since it is the smallest object by far to have rings and only the fifth body in the Solar System \u2014 after the much larger planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune \u2014 to have this feature.<\/p>\n
Astronomers think that this sort of ring is likely to be formed from debris left over after a collision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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We know know what the famous announcement by the European Southern Observatory is. They found an asteroid with ring! Two of them! …the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings. Telescopes at seven locations in South America, including the 1.54-metre Danish and TRAPPIST telescopes at ESO\u2019s La Silla Observatory in Chile … Continue reading Two Rings To Rule Them All: Amazing Space Discovery<\/span>