09 – ALMA Top 10: Planetary Rings of Uranus ‘Glow’ in Cold Light

The rings of Uranus are thin and dark. But new thermal images from ALMA Observatory and the Very Large Telescope in Chile show them glowing brightly.
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2019 ALMA Top 10
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