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Blue Ring Around Uranus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-many-hours-looking-through-a-telescope dept.

ZedNaught writes "The BBC is reporting that 'astronomers have discovered that the planet Uranus has a blue ring - only the second found in the Solar System. Like the blue ring of Saturn, it probably owes its existence to an accompanying small moon.' According to the April issue of Science, the blue ring is one of two new outer rings recently discovered around Uranus using the infrared Keck adaptive optics system. The rings are blue and red like Saturn's E and G rings. The blue ring around Saturn hosts the moon Enceladus while the Uranus ring contains the moon Mab."

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  1. If ever.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If ever there were a topic begging for a goatse post, this is it.

    1. Re:If ever.. by ettlz · · Score: 5, Funny

      It shows you how old and Slashdot-wise you have become when the first thing that pops into your head on mention of "Uranus" and "ring" is hello.jpg.

  2. and in other news...... by PsychoElf · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, Uranus has filed suit against Neptune for making it pick up the soap, which Pluto clearly dropped.

  3. Re:man... by swingkid · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait until 2620 so I don't have to hear Uranus jokes anymore.

  4. Re:man... by springbox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then the Urectum jokes will commence!

  5. Re:Come on now! by slizz · · Score: 5, Funny

    what's the same about star trek and toilet paper? they both circle uranus searching for klingons!

  6. Re:man... by saforrest · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the Farkers have already made every possible anus joke.

    I think that statement was true even before this latest news came out.

  7. Even the tags are in on the joke... slightly. by Tavor · · Score: 5, Funny

    "[+] uranus, science, space, astronomy, anal (tagging beta)"

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  8. Re:man... by Brett+Johnson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, they had already found a red ring:

    "... the blue ring is one of two new outer rings recently discovered around Uranus using the infrared Keck adaptive optics system. The rings are blue and red like Saturn's E and G rings."

    I would love to have been the astronomer that got to stand up in front of a conference room full of scientists and said:
    "We have found a red ring around Uranus..." [Room erupts in laughter.]