Football-shaped Haumea found to have giant ring system

THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM — Scientists in Granada, Spain have discovered a ring system around the dwarf planet Haumea

Named after that Hawaiian goddess of childbirth, Haumea is orbited by two moons and, according to a new Nature study, a giant ring system.

The only other celestial bodies observed to present a ring system Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus.

Details of the finding were published in the journal Nature.