See the gas giant's nearly invisible rings thanks to NASA's powerful new space telescope.
. They are made up of billions of pieces of comets, asteroids, and moons pulled in and torn apart by the planet’s gravity.
In the current study, the authors used a computer model to simulate Jupiter’s orbit and the orbits of four of its moons—Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa. The astrophysicists also included information on how long it takes for rings to take shape. “We found that the Galilean moons of Jupiter, one of which is the largest moon in our solar system, would very quickly destroy any large rings that might form,” Kane said, referring to the moons by their discoverer, Galileo Galilei.
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