BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Quaoar

DWARF PLANET · the impossible ring
Quaoar
AI illustration of the real object
SIZE about 1,100 kmSPECIAL a ring where none should exist

An icy world named after the creation force of the Tongva people of California. Quaoar surprised everyone with a thin ring that circles much farther out than the rules of gravity say a ring can survive; by the textbook, that material should have clumped into a moon long ago. Nature clearly has not read the textbook, and scientists love puzzles like this.

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