Planetary ring

A planetary ring (or simply ring) was a circular band of small bodies orbiting around a planet in a flat disc-shaped region.Lost Stars
==Description==
Planetary rings could be formed from the remnants of satellites, such as the silica ring of the planet Lah'mu, which were created after one of its moons was pulverized.Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide The rings revolving around GeonosisStar Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know and Bothawui were rocky in nature, while the planet Minfar had a ring made of ice.Spark of the Resistance Planets could have multiple sets of rings, exemplified by a gas giant in the Unknown Regions.Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising It was also possible for moons themselves to possess rings; one of the moons of the planet Brendok had a ring system.
Although ring systems could constitute navigational hazards,Ultimate Star Wars some were mined for metal ore.Lords of the Sith The rings of the gas giant Hudalla were some of the largest in the galaxy. The ring of the planet Tiferep Major was disrupted when the wreckage-prison Accresker Jail fell through it.Doctor Aphra (2016) 25
In a distant galaxy, the planetary ring in the orbit of the extragalactic planet Peridea was a graveyard made up of purrgil bones.
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==Sources==
*Ultimate Star Wars
*Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
*Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
*Star Wars Day-at-a-Time Calendar 2022 
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Category:Types of astronomical objects