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Tiny dwarf planet Quaoar has a mysterious ring

Publicado em 11 de fevereiro de 2023
The European Space Agency’s CHEOPS telescope normally searches for planets outside our solar system, but recently it made a discovery closer to home: a large ring around dwarf planet Quaoar that has researchers intrigued. The ring has been spotted around the dwarf planet Quaoar, located about 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth in the Kuiper Belt. The planet itself is small, just 690 miles across, but the ring around it is much larger – at seven and a half times its [...]