The ring is supposed to be a complete moon, instead of a stream of much smaller rocks in a ring-like structure.
, it turns out Quaoar even has a ring around it like Saturn or Jupiter. That would be pretty delightful news if scientists knew—Quaoar’s ring orbits the planet from an extreme distance where it should theoretically be impossible to exist.
The team behind the discovery, made thanks to a European space telescope called CHEOPS, thinks that perhaps freezing temperatures may have prevented the rocks from coming together into a moon, and instead they dispersed into a ring. But no one is sure. The existence of the ring is already one of astronomy’s most perplexing mysteries of the year so far.
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