Are Neptune's rings visible?

                             Neptune has 6 rings, but they’re very hard to see because they are dark and vary in density and size. Astronomers think Neptune’s rings are young compared to the age of the planet, and that they were probably formed when one of Neptune’s moons was destroyed.

The rings of Neptune are very dark and probably made of organic compounds that have been baked in the radiation of space. This is similar to the rings of Uranus but very different from the icy rings around Saturn. They seem to contain a large quantity of micrometer-sized dust, similar in size to the particles in the rings of Jupiter.




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