{"id":747635,"date":"2023-02-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=747635"},"modified":"2023-02-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:00:00","slug":"esas-cheops-finds-an-unexpected-ring-around-dwarf-planet-quaoar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=747635","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s Cheops finds an unexpected ring around dwarf planet Quaoar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Artist_impression_of_Quaoar_and_its_ring_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During a break from looking at planets around other stars, <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Cheops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESA\u2019s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) mission<\/a> has observed a dwarf planet in our own Solar System and made a decisive contribution to the discovery of a dense ring of material around it.<\/p>\n<p>The dwarf planet is known as Quaoar. The presence of a ring at a distance of almost seven and a half times the radius of Quaoar, opens up a mystery for astronomers to solve: why has this material not coalesced into a small moon?<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Cheops\/ESA_s_Cheops_finds_an_unexpected_ring_around_dwarf_planet_Quaoar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESA\u2019s Cheops finds an unexpected ring around dwarf planet Quaoar<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a break from looking at planets around other stars, ESA\u2019s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) mission has observed a dwarf planet in our own Solar System and made a decisive&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747636,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/747636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}