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The rings of #Uranus! We combined thermal-infrared imaging from the @ESO Very Large Telescope with millimetre imaging from ALMA to make the first ever detection of thermal emission from the rings: Molter et al. arxiv.org/abs/1905.12566
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What's amazing about this is that the #Uranus observations were targeting the thermal structure of the atmosphere. When I first processed the data, I was astonished to see the rings. That's never happened before.
I actually thought I'd messed up and created artefacts in the mid-IR imaging... (heh, wouldn't be the first time). It was only when I zoomed out that I realised what I was seeing.
