Galileo's discovery marked the beginning of a new way of thinking in studying the Sun.
Sunspots only exist for at the most a few months each.
The Sun is a star, like most stars the Sun is made up of mostly hydrogen, with a trace of at least seventy other heavier elements. He thought that they were like handles or ansae. Then in1655 a Dutch astronomer named Christian huygens that the rings were NOT connected to the planet, just going around it. Then the rings were named in order of their discovery and from the planet outward they are D, C, B, A, F, G, and E rings. Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the from the Sun.