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posted 05. January 2006 22:11
Source: UC Berkeley News Center
Keck telescope captures faint new ring around Uranus
By Robert Sanders
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BERKELEY – Astronomers have made the first ground-based observations of one of two new rings discovered recently around the planet Uranus by the Hubble Space Telescope and announced today (Thursday, Dec. 22).
The new discoveries within the Uranus ring system are being made thanks to the superb instrumentation that researchers are now using on both the Keck and Hubble telescopes, and because of the current angle of Uranus' rings as seen from Earth, according to Imke de Pater, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and leader of the ring science Keck observing team.
Read the full release at the UC Berkeley News Center
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