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Blue Ring Discovered Around Uranus

Caption: A schematic view of the outer rings of Saturn and Uranus, in which each system has been scaled to a common planetary radius. The main rings of Uranus have been drawn to emphasize that these rings are extremely narrow.

Credit: Photo by de Pater, Hammel, Gibbard, and Showalter. Courtesy of Science magazine.

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