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The rings of Uranus consists of 13 planetary rings. ... The mean size of the ring particles is 0.2–20.0 m, ... the ν ring is slightly red in color.
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]
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 .
The normally faint inner and outer rings of Uranus shine in the latest image, including the planet’s closest yet incredibly dim and diffuse Zeta ring. Nine of Uranus’ 27 known moons can also ...
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 ...
Most pictures of Uranus in textbooks show it as a bright blue, featureless ball. But the James Webb Space Telescope, the preeminent new observatory that senses light at invisible, infrared ...
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Astronomers have used telescope data to color-correct Voyager 2 images of Neptune and Uranus, revealing that the planets have a similar greenish blue hue.