Chiron is a centaur approximately 200 km in diameter and takes about 50 years to complete a full orbit around the Sun.

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Study discovered that Chiron, a small icy world between Saturn and Uranus, is forming rings. This shows how small worlds ...

Recent telescope data revealed that a small planet in the far reaches of our solar system has a dense ring round it. And scientists are baffled as to why. Recent telescope data revealed that a small ...

Saturn's many rings are disappearing, and in 2025, the rings won't be visible from Earth, at least temporarily. Saturn's ring system extends up to 175,000 miles from the surface of the planet making ...

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For something formed by the iron hand of physics, the universe has a lovely aesthetic sense — its galaxies spiral, its novas explode, its nebuale spread like great, sculpted clouds. For sheer cosmic ...

Recent telescope data revealed that a small planet in the far reaches of our solar system has a dense ring round it. And scientists are baffled as to why. The planet, Quaoar, is one of roughly 3,000 ...

Just on the outskirts of our solar system exists the dwarf planet Quaoar, and recent observations of the planet found a dense ring around it, but scientists can't figure how – or why – it's there.