{"id":157325,"date":"2023-02-08T15:25:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/astronomers-discovered-breakthrough-ring-system-in-our-solar-system"},"modified":"2023-02-08T15:25:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:25:24","slug":"astronomers-discovered-breakthrough-ring-system-in-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/astronomers-discovered-breakthrough-ring-system-in-our-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discovered breakthrough ring system in our Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discovered-breakthrough-ring-system-in-our-solar-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery is putting into question everything astronomers believed about ring systems.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from the University of Sheffield discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System, according to a press release. The discovery calls into question current theories about how ring systems are formed since the ring system orbits much further out than is typical for other ring systems.<\/p>\n<p>Around a dwarf planet.<\/p>\n<p>The ring system is located around a dwarf planet named Quaoar, which is approximately half the size of Pluto and orbits the Sun beyond Neptune.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Paris Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>The astronomers spotted the ring system by using HiPERCAM \u2014 an extremely sensitive high-speed camera developed by scientists at the University of Sheffield, which is mounted on the world\u2019s largest optical telescope, the 10.4-meter diameter Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) on La Palma.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/astronomers-discovered-breakthrough-ring-system-in-our-solar-system\">Continue reading \u201cAstronomers discovered breakthrough ring system in our Solar System\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery is putting into question everything astronomers believed about ring systems. Astronomers from the University of Sheffield discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System, according to a press release. The discovery calls into question current theories about how ring systems are formed since the ring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}