Science news articles about 'dust ring'

  • Scientists find rings of Jupiter are shaped in shadow

    ... explained the observed eccentricities. "Within our model we can explain all essential structures of the dust ring we observed," said Krüger. According to Hamilton, the mechanisms identified in ...
  • Cassini sees collisions of moonlets on Saturn's ring

    ... discovered that the rapid changes in Saturn's F ring can be attributed to small moonlets causing perturbations ... Understanding how small objects move within the dust rings around Saturn gives an insight ...
  • NASA supercomputer shows how dust rings point to exo-Earths

    ... stars but, before then, we'll be able to detect the ornate and beautiful rings they carve in interplanetary dust," says Christopher Stark, the study's lead researcher at the University of Maryland, ...
  • Giant ring detected around Saturn

    A colossal dust ring is seen encircling Saturn, extending more than 12 million km into space.
  • Worlds in collision

    ... hundred million years old at most, with the massive dust ring signaling the final stages in the formation ... Earth-like planets are most likely to be and where dust typically cannot survive long. Small ...
  • NASA supercomputer shows how dust rings point to exo-Earths

    Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new ...
  • Hubble directly observes a planet orbiting another star

    ... ," Kalas says. "Fomalhaut is the gift that keeps on giving. Following the unexpected discovery of its dust ring, we have now found an exoplanet at a location suggested by analysis of the dust ring's ...
  • Predicted planet seen -- first since Neptune 162 years ago

    ... planet size and position from the features of a star's dust ring. She used Hubble Space Telescope ... instance, is necessary for younger stars whose dust is relatively fine and acts more like a fluid— ...
  • Black hole outflows from Centaurus A detected with APEX

    ... of strong radio and X-ray emission. In the image, we see the dust ring encircling the giant galaxy, and the fast-moving radio jets ejected from the galaxy centre, signatures of the ...
  • Herschel images promise bright future

    ... photometer took a small map of the Cat's Eye Nebula in its 70 micron band, showing the structure of a dust ring with an opening on one side. Following these first light images, ...

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