Bad media alert!

Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
This press release from last week (which I posted about here) details the Hubble Telescope’s discovery of two new Uranian moons as well as a pair of newly observed rings around the distant gas giant. Unfortunately, a syndicated news story has circulated and been reproduced without […]

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Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
To the surprise of astronomers, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a pair of new rings around the distant planet Uranus. The largest is twice the diameter of the planet’s previously known rings. The new rings are so far away that they are being […]