which giant planets have rings?
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Which planets have rings?  (Beginner) Thanks in advance for your assistance. All of the giant planets in our solar system have rings: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Jupiter's ring is thin and dark, and cannot be seen from Earth. Saturn's rings are the most magnificent; they are bright, wide, and colorful. Uranus has nine dark rings around it, and Neptune's rings are also dark, but contain a few bright arcs.
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Curiosities: Why do some planets have rings? For ages, Saturn was thought to be the only planet in our solar system with a ring system. But in recent years ring systems have been discovered around Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune as well. “There are various theories about planetary rings, like the fantastic rings around Saturn, but we cannot say for sure how they are formed,” explains Lattis. One theory is that the rings formed at the same time as the planet and its major moons. In this case, if material is close to the planet, the planet’s gravitational pull is too strong to coalesce into a moon and the particles that would otherwise form a moon spread out in orbit around the planet as a ring.
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Jupiter It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants; the other two giant planets, Uranus and Neptune are ice giants. Jupiter has been known to astronomers since antiquity.
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Gas giant For the band, see Gas Giants (band). A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants of the Solar System. The term gas giant was originally synonymous with giant planet, but in the 1990s it became known that Uranus and Neptune are really a distinct class of giant planet, being composed mainly of heavier volatile substances (which are referred to as 'ices').
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224 The extrasolar planets are gas giants, like Jupiter. -----Question 8b of 10 ( 3 Extrasolar Planets 249456 ) Maximum Attempts: 1 Question Type: Multiple Choice Maximum Score: 5 Question: Which planet do most known extrasolar planets LEAST resemble? Choice Feedback A. Jupiter That's not correct. Jupiter is a very large planet. B. Neptune That's not correct.
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How Many Planets in the Solar System Have Rings Around Them? There are four planets in the solar system that have rings around them, namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. These planets are classified as jovian planets, and they are massive balls of gas surrounded by rings and moons.
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Solar System The four planets of the outer solar system come in two general types. Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants: huge spheres of hydrogen and helium with only traces of other elements. Uranus and Neptune are water worlds: somewhat smaller planets with a larger fraction of heavier elements (eg., oxygen, carbon, nitrogen) than their giant neighbors.
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- A gas giant is a large planet composed mostly of gases, such as hydrogen and helium, with a relatively small rocky core. The gas giants of our solar system are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
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Which Planets Have Rings? Planetary rings are an interesting phenomena. The mere mention of these two words tends to conjure up images of Saturn, with its large and colorful system of rings that form an orbiting disk. But in fact, several other planets in our Solar System have rings. It’s just that, unlike Saturn, their systems are less visible, […]
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Gas giant Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants of the Solar System. The term gas giant was originally synonymous with giant planet, but in the 1990s it became known that Uranus and Neptune are really a distinct class of giant planet, being composed mainly of heavier volatile substances (which are referred to as ices).
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Why does Saturn have rings? Saturn is the sixth planet in our solar system. While Saturn’s rings seem to be the most noticeable, there are other planets that have rings. Neptune, Jupiter and Uranus all have rings around them, but you have to get a powerful telescope to actually see them. The rings around Saturn are the largest and the brightest of all of the planets, spanning 175,000 miles! To give you an idea of how big that is, it is almost three quarters of the distance between the earth and the moon. They may be wide, but they are also very thin: only 30 to 300 feet thick.
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Neptune All the gas giants in our solar system, including Neptune have rings. The rings of Neptune are made up of fairly small, very dark clumps of rock. Scientists believe that most of these clumps are about the size of a small car.There is also a large amount of dust in the rings.One of the rings has a twist in it.eptune is about 49500 kilometers. in diameter, about four times the size of Earth, which is about 12800 kilometers. in diameter. Neptune and Uranus are almost the same size, but both seem tiny in comparison to mighty Jupiter, which is almost three times as large as either of them.
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What Are They, and Where Are They? What Are They, and Where Are They? All four jovian planets have rings, although only Saturn's rings are easily visible from Earth. Rings are composed of countless small pieces of rock and ice, each orbiting its planet like a tiny moon. The rings look flat because the particles all orbit in essentially the same plane.
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All four of the giant planets in our Solar System are known to have rings. Where do these rings come from? The rings of the other giant planets probably formed in a similar way, but from the destruction of much smaller objects (either small moons, or asteroids/comets that came too close to the planet). That’s why they are less impressive. The key for ring formation are tidal forces.
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Which Planets Have Rings? Neptune’s Rings: The rings of Neptune were not discovered until 1989 until the Voyager 2 space probe conducted a flyby of the planet. Six rings have been observed in the system, which are best described as faint and tenuous.
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Saturn's Rings: Composition, Characteristics & Creation Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is one of the most easily identified targets for astronomers, largely due to its large and distinct ring system. The rings of Saturn have fascinated stargazers for centuries, ever since telescopes were first pointed toward the sky. When Galileo Galilei first observed Saturn in 1610, he thought that the rings were enormous moons, one positioned on each side of the
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The ring system Extending from 128 to 207 Saturn radii, far beyond the other rings, is the outermost, a vast, tenuous ring of dust shed from impacts on the moon Phoebe. It is the largest planetary ring in the solar system. The Spitzer Space Telescope discovered this ring; its observations showed an optical depth of 2 × 10−8.
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This Super-Saturn Alien Planet Might Be the New 'Lord of the Rings' However, until we discovered this object in 2012, no one had seen such a ring system. This is the first snapshot of satellite formation on million-kilometer scales around a substellar object.. So maybe Saturn need not worry. In millions of years J1407b's rings will be a thing of the past, and it will regain its crown. The ring study has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Follow Shannon Hall @ShannonWHall.
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How many rings does Uranus have? There are thirteen rings surrounding the planet Uranus. Ten of the rings were first discovered by Australian astronomers in 1977. In 1986, technological advances allowed the space craft Voyager II to identify the other three rings encircling the planet.
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- These images of the four Jovian planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and. Neptune — hint at some of the remarkable attributes that set them apart from the. smaller, rocky terrestrial planets. Also called “giant planets,” the Jovian planets. occupy orbits in the outer solar system at distances ranging from 5 (Jupiter) to. 30 (Neptune) times the Earth’s distance from the Sun. Unlike the terrestrial planets that make up our inner solar system — Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars — the Jovian planets do not have solid surfaces.
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Ring system A second centaur, 2060 Chiron, is also suspected to have a pair of rings. Based on stellar-occultation data that were initially interpreted as resulting from jets associated with Chiron's comet-like activity, the rings are proposed to be 324 (± 10) km in radius.
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What Are They, and Where Are They? What Are They, and Where Are They? Moons and Rings. After size, perhaps the most noticeable difference between the jovian and terrestrial planets involves moons and rings. The terrestrial planets are nearly isolated worlds, with only Earth (1 moon) and Mars (2 moons) orbited by any moons at all. In contrast, many moons and rings orbit each of the jovian planets.
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What are outer planets? There are four outer planets : Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and  Neptune.   All are gaseous and more massive than the Earth.    Pluto was once designated as a planet, …but was reclassified as a  dwarf planet. The four inner planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth,  and Mars.
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What are Saturn's rings made of? Although­ Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have rings of their own, none are as spectacular as Saturn's. Saturn's rings are also one of the great mysteries in space. But as our spacecraft edge closer than ever to the rings, we're getting a more complete picture of what they're made of and how they came to exist. Saturn has six main rings, each composed of thousands of tiny ringlets. The rings are huge -- the biggest ones spanning 170,000 miles (273,588 km) in diameter. They are, however, proportionately very thin -- only about 650 feet (200 meters) thick. They aren't solid, as they appear from Earth, but are instead made up of floating chunks of water ice, rocks and dust that range in size from specks to enormous, house-sized pieces that orbit Saturn in a ring pattern.
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How Many Planets in the Solar System Have Rings Around Them? How many planets in the solar system have rings around them? There are four planets in the solar system that have rings around them, namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. These planets are classified as jovian planets, and they are massive balls of gas surrounded by rings and moons.
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Solar System The four outer planets, or giant planets (sometimes called Jovian planets), collectively make up 99% of the mass known to orbit the Sun. All four giant planets have rings, although only Saturn's ring system is easily observed from Earth.