Jupiter has a thin set of nearly imperceptible rings with features that have long puzzled scientists. A new study reveals how light and shadow are at work there. IE 11 is not supported.

Jupiter has a thin set of nearly imperceptible rings with features that have long puzzled scientists. A new study reveals how light and shadow are at work there, solving several mysteries at once ...

The telescope also spotted Jupiter's thin rings made of dust particles from debris, visible auroras at Jupiter's northern and southern poles, and two of the planet's moons, Amalthea and Adrastea.

Even Jupiter's thin rings are visible in some of the new images. The rings are made of dust particles hurled into space when micrometeoroids crash into nearby moons.

Jupiter's rings are thin and flimsy. They're made of dust, which is not a great reflector of light, so are much harder to see. The simulations looked at the orbit of Jupiter and the orbits of its ...

Jupiter’s thin ring of dust was only spotted in 1979. “We didn’t know these ephemeral rings existed until the Voyager spacecraft went past because we couldn’t see them,” Kane said.

Astronomers have found that a planet's rings can be affected by specific events that occurred decades, not millions of years, ago. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES. NEWSLETTER SIGNUP.

By Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Three out of the four biggest planets in our solar system have a ring orbiting around them, with Saturn’s ...

By Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Three out of the four biggest planets in our solar system have a ring orbiting around them, with Saturn’s ...