Given its similarities to its neighbor, Saturn, it seems natural to ask why Jupiter doesn't also have a magnificent, extensive system of visible rings.
Alas, it's not the reality. While Jupiter does have rings, they're thin, tenuous, flimsy things of dust, visible only when back-lit by the Sun.According to new research, these discount rings lack bling because Jupiter's posse of chonky Galilean moons keep discs of rock and dust from accumulating the way they do around Saturn.
"It's long bothered me why Jupiter doesn't have even more amazing rings that would put Saturn's to shame,""If Jupiter did have them, they'd appear even brighter to us, because the planet is so much closer than Saturn." To interrogate the idea of a giant ring system forming around Jupiter at some point in its history, Kane and his colleague, astrophysicist Zhexing Li of UC Riverside, conducted a series of simulations of the objects orbiting the Jovian system.
These simulations took into account the orbital motion of Jupiter, and the motions of its four largest moons, also known as the
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