{"id":157515,"date":"2023-02-10T01:25:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T07:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/space-mystery-unexpected-new-ring-system-discovered-in-our-own-solar-system"},"modified":"2023-02-10T01:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T07:25:22","slug":"space-mystery-unexpected-new-ring-system-discovered-in-our-own-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/space-mystery-unexpected-new-ring-system-discovered-in-our-own-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Space Mystery: Unexpected New Ring System Discovered in Our Own Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-mystery-unexpected-new-ring-system-discovered-in-our-own-solar-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a break from looking at planets around other stars, the European Space Agency\u2019s <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/cheops\/>CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) mission<\/a> has observed a <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-dwarf-planet\/>dwarf planet<\/a> in our own Solar System and made a decisive contribution to the discovery of a dense ring of material around it.<\/p>\n<p>The dwarf planet is known as Quaoar. The presence of a ring at a distance of almost seven and a half times the radius of Quaoar, opens up a mystery for astronomers to solve: why has this material not coalesced into a small moon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a break from looking at planets around other stars, the European Space Agency\u2019s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) mission has observed a dwarf planet in our own Solar System and made a decisive contribution to the discovery of a dense ring of material around it. The dwarf planet is known as Quaoar. The presence of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157515","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}