15 September 2016
Scientists shed light on how our gas giants got their different rings
... of astronomers from France and Japan, who have constructed a series of simulations to help work out the enigma of planetary ring formation. The team, whose lead author on their recent research paper is Ryuki Hyodo from the Institut...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... we could raise it to a higher orbit and its 450 tonnes of mass could become the first clumping node of a planetary ring. The author acknowledges the significant engineering challenges involved in this proposal, but if humanity is to face the future...
31 December 2018
Planetary Ring Systems: properties, structure and evolution
... book shows how far we’ve come thanks to planetary spacecraft: it depicts the shepherd moon Daphnis which orbits in the Keeler Gap in Saturn’s A ring. The caption reports that “The surrounding ring structure includes wavy gap edges and...
