NASA's Hubble telescope has achieved a very difficult image to photograph: the ring system of the planet Uranus .
The complexity of capturing the ring system of the third largest planet in our solar system is due to the fact that they are very dark and weak , not like the ring structure of Saturn, much better known and easier to immortalize.
The ring system of Uranus was discovered in 1977 but, according to data recorded more than two centuries ago, the well-known astronomer and discoverer of this planet, William Herschel, also announced the presence of rings on Uranus, although the current scientific community shows skeptical of the real possibility that she might have observed them.
In any case, the enigma of this dark and weak ring system still has many open fronts. The system is known to be made up of 13 distinct rings whose radii range from 38,000 to 98,000 kilometers and whose width is only a few kilometers . Furthermore, scientists believe that Uranus' ring system may be only about 600 million years old (making it quite young) and composed of water ice along with some dark organic compounds processed by radiation.
