How Enormous Cosmic Dust Rings Form Over 100,000 Years

When it comes to planetal accessories , we ’ve get our moon , but lovely as it is , it does n’t hold a candle to some of the showy scrap of dash out there . I ’m talking about annulus . Here ’s where they come from .

When you ’re mean about rings , your psyche belike jumpstart right to Saturn , but sometimes the mesmerize magnetic disk of debris can constitute without a planet to cling to . NASA put together a squeamish timelapse simulation of how that happens . Needless to say , it takes evermore .

The fake disc we see here is huge , 100 times the average distance between the Earth and the Sun . If real it were real , it would contain everything from dust and ice crystals on up to full - scale comets and asteroids . That ’s some cosmic jewellery you do n’t want to mess up with , and its probably best for our space program this blue marble does n’t have any . But still , you ca n’t help but be a little envious .