is there a ring around jupiter?
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Jupiter also has several rings, but unlike the famous rings of Saturn, Jupiter's rings are very faint and made of dust, not ice.
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Between the inner and outer planets lies an area filled with millions of asteroids — small rocky, icy, and metallic bodies left over from the formation of the Solar System. ... Astronomers theorize that Jupiter's gravity influenced this region so much that no large planet could take shape.
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The rings of Saturn should be visible in even the smallest telescope at 25x [magnified by 25 times]. A good 3-inch scope at 50x [magnified by 50 times] can show them as a separate structure detached on all sides from the ball of the planet.
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Jupiter is called a gas giant planet. Its atmosphere is made up of mostly hydrogen gas and helium gas, like the sun. The planet is covered in thick red, brown, yellow and white clouds.
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A Mysterious Glow Warms Rings of Uranus. A composite image of the atmosphere and rings of Uranus seen in thermal emission. Some sort of a heat wave warms the rings of Uranus, even though the planet orbits far away from the sun.
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The mean diameter of Jupiter is 138,346.5 km, the equatorial diameter being 142,984 km and the polar diameter being 133,709 km. The average diameter of the Earth is 12,742 km meaning Jupiter's average diameter is 10.86 times that of the Earth's (10.49 time at the poles and 11.22 times at the equator).
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They are alike in that they are planets and they orbit the same star. They both also have very hot cores and atmospheres. That is about where the similarities end, though. Jupiter is a large (a little more hydrogen and it could be a star) gas giant and orbits far further from the sun than earth.
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Jupiter has a diameter of about 88,695 miles (142,800 kilometers) which is more than 11 times the diameter of Earth. It's volume is over 1,300 times the volume of Earth.
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Great Red Spot on Jupiter. The Great Red Spot is a persistent anticyclonic storm on the planet Jupiter, 22 degrees south of the equator, which has lasted at least 340 years. The storm is large enough to be visible through Earth-based telescopes. It was probably first observed by Cassini, who described it around 1665.
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The rings of Saturn are the most extensive ring system of any planet in the Solar System. They consist of countless small particles, ranging in size from micrometers to meters, that orbit about Saturn. The ring particles are made almost entirely of water ice, with a trace component of rocky material.
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Canup proposed that the rings are the icy remnants of a bygone moon. When Saturn and its satellites formed along with the rest of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago, one of Saturn's large moons formed too close to the planet to maintain a stable orbit. ... Canup's "shaved ice" theory does the trick.
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New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn's magnetic field.
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The diameter of Mercury is 4,879.4 km, while the diameter of Jupiter is 142,984 km. In other words, Jupiter is 29.3 times bigger across than Mercury. ... Jupiter in comparison is a relatively less dense gas giant planet; it's made up almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, with a few other trace elements.
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Yes, as one of the five brightest planets, Jupiter is visible without a telescope. Jupiter gives off a very bright white light and it will shine brighter than any other star in the sky.
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Just outside of Neptune's orbit is a ring of icy bodies. We call it the Kuiper Belt. It's pronounced ky-purr. This is where you'll find dwarf planet Pluto.
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Rings aren't leftover from planet formation because the particles are too small to have survived this long. There must be a continuous replacement of tiny particles. The most likely source is impacts with the jovian moons. Jovian planets all have rings because they possess many small moons close-in.
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According to folklore, "A ring around the sun or moon means rain or snow is coming soon." ... The ring, or a lunar halo, is caused by the refraction and reflection of light from ice crystals that are suspended in thin, wispy, cirrus or cirrostratus clouds that are at high altitudes.