{"id":157470,"date":"2023-02-09T11:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-find-dense-ring-around-dwarf-planet-but-cant-quite-explain-why-its-there"},"modified":"2023-02-09T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:29:28","slug":"scientists-find-dense-ring-around-dwarf-planet-but-cant-quite-explain-why-its-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-find-dense-ring-around-dwarf-planet-but-cant-quite-explain-why-its-there","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find dense ring around dwarf planet, but can\u2019t quite explain why it\u2019s there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-dense-ring-around-dwarf-planet-but-cant-quite-explain-why-its-there2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we put everything together, we saw drops in brightness that were not caused by Quaoar, but that pointed to the presence of material in a circular orbit around it,\u201d said Bruno Morgado of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in a statement. \u201cThe moment we saw that we said, \u2018Okay, we are seeing a ring around Quaoar.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quaoar is part of a collection of about 3,000 dwarf planets known as trans-Neptunian objects, which are beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are now wondering why the dense material in Quaoar\u2019s ring has not come together to form a small moon, because the ring itself is \u201cat a distance of almost seven and a half times the radius of Quaoar,\u201d the ESA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen we put everything together, we saw drops in brightness that were not caused by Quaoar, but that pointed to the presence of material in a circular orbit around it,\u201d said Bruno Morgado of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in a statement. \u201cThe moment we saw that we said, \u2018Okay, we are seeing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157470","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}