In 2013, astronomers discovered two rings around 250-km-wide Chariklo; nine years later, James Webb found the inner ring more opaque and the outer ring weaker
Credit: L. Maquet, Observatoire de Paris In 2013, astronomers discovered two narrow rings around Chariklo, a 250-kilometre-wide minor planet orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, marking the first time rings had been found around such a small body. Nine years later, the James Webb Space Telescope observed the same system during a rare stellar occultation and…
