{"id":657779,"date":"2023-02-08T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=657779"},"modified":"2023-02-08T18:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:26:18","slug":"this-dwarf-planet-has-a-ring-instead-of-a-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/this-dwarf-planet-has-a-ring-instead-of-a-moon","title":{"rendered":"This dwarf planet has a ring instead of a moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) &#8212; 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 small planets that orbit the sun beyond Neptune, and at 690 miles (1,110-kilometers) wide, it&#8217;s about the seventh largest, with Pluto and Eris ranking as the biggest.Observations of Quaoar made between 2018 and 2021 revealed that the planet has a ring sitting farther away from it than scientists previously believed to be possible, according to a news release from the European Space Agency, which used ground-based telescopes and a new space-based telescope called Cheops to collect the data.Based on conventional thinking, all the material that makes up Quaoar&#8217;s dense ring should have condensed and formed a small moon. But it didn&#8217;t.&#8220;Early results suggest that the frigid temperatures at Quaoar may play a role in preventing the icy particles from sticking together but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) &#8212; 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}