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Picture of the rings of Uranus and 5 of its moons. The moons appears as a string of three dots in this picture - this picture is a combination of three separate pictures. The rings of Uranus were discovered in 1977.
Picture by Voyager 2 of the rings of Uranus. The long exposure of this photograph caused the background stars to appear as long smears.
( Picture of the Voyager 2 spacecraft )
Only the planet Uranus has fine dust scattered throughout its ring system.
Picture of the rings of Uranus by Voyager 2. The bright ring on the left is called epsilon. From the left, the following faint ring is called delta and the next faint ring is named gamma. The smallest object on this picture is 15 kilometers across.
The bright, short streak in the center of the photograph is a shepard satellite/moon.
Picture of the rings of Uranus. Two shepherd satellites are circled. These moons are about 20 and 30 kilometers across.
All nine of the rings of Uranus is visible on this photograph. The rings of Uranus were discovered in 1977.
The epsilon ring is about 100 kilometers wide. All the other rings are much narrower.
At the top of the epsilon ring (the bright outer ring) four dark spots/breaks in the ring. These spots/breaks are imperfections in the image - these breaks are not real.
