In 2013, Felipe Braga-Ribas and collaborators, using ground-based telescopes, discovered that Chariklo hosts a system of two thin rings. Such rings had been expected only around large planets such ...
Ten years ago, a wispy ring was discovered around Chariklo, a planetoid some 200 kms in diameter, orbiting the sun beyond Saturn. Where there’s one, there may be others. Now researchers at ...