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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. eww by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    more like a brown ring...

  2. Re:man... by SpcAgentOrange · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And thus Slashdot is no longer the only website on the internets to not have diseased anus jokes about this article.

    K

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  3. Re:Humm by Jamesblond · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Modded zero? Really?

  4. as opposed to... by ehrichweiss · · Score: 0, Redundant

    the BROWN ring...ba-dum-dum. Hadda be done

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    1. Re:as opposed to... by ehrichweiss · · Score: 0, Redundant

      someone modded this as "redundant"!?!? So everyone else making jokes are "funny" but this one was redundant?!?!? *rolls eyes*

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  5. blue ring... by the_odin · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Thats what happens when the water splashes up. Damn 2000 flushes...

  6. Anus? by Kent+Simon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    from the tagging beta:
    uranus, anal, science, space, astronomy (tagging beta)

    hilarious

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  7. Re:man... by kerrbear · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I should get that checked out....

    Don't worry, it's just that blueberry moon pie you ate last night.

  8. Change of name by dark+grep · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I heard that to stop all the juvenile jokes about its name, Uranus had been changed to 'Urectum'. I am sure I saw that on some future documentary show.

  9. 2000 by ajservo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's why the 2000 Flushes Blue tablet goes in your tank, not your trunk.

  10. Wow! A blue ring around Uranus... by n0tWorthy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...and I thought blue balls were bad!

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  11. How come by DrugCheese · · Score: 0, Redundant

    we've never sent any probes to Uranus?

    Are we afraid of the results?

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