Scott Tremaine, “Astrophysical Wonders” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Is There a Ring Structure of Exo Planets?
i think it's quite possible that many of the planets we've seen have beautiful ring systems, but they're all edge on and we can't see any of them. And in the likely case where the planet's a equator is lined with its orbit, any rings would be edge on to us - i don't know how lucky we are to have a ring system like saturn's. Do we have any ability, or can you foresee any ability in the longer term, to get a sense of some ring structure ofexo planets at all? That that's possible, and certainly people have thought about that. O the typi problem is that the x planets we can see best are
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