They Found A Mysterious Asteroid With Rings

The rings around Saturn are indeed one of the most known and discussed space phenomena.  Astronomers have also found rings around an interesting asteroid:

From ESO, observations made at telescopes in South America have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings. This is the smallest object to have rings and only the fifth body in the Solar System — after the much larger planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — to have this feature. The origin of these rings remains a mystery, but they may be the result of a collision that created a disc of debris.

Let’s check out these strange rings in the video on page 2

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