Billions of miles away, in a distant part of our solar system, astronomers have found a new ring orbiting a small, icy world.
But this newly discovered ring is unlike the telltale halos of ice and dust that orbit planets such as Saturn and Jupiter in a key aspect—it is unusually far from its host body, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
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