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Dwarf planet Quaoar hosts a ring that shouldn’t be there

Publicado em 15 de fevereiro de 2023
Astronomers discovered that dwarf planet Quaoar, which resides in the outer solar system, sports a strange ring around it. And according to researchers, this lumpy ring of material is so far from the icy world’s surface that theory says it should have formed a moon instead. “At the end of the day, this ring is not where we expect it to be,” Bruno Morgado, an astronomer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and lead author of the new study, tells [...]