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...
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...
