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at least stick to the solar system
Yeah, a planet that's just like Earth but with a ring system would be dope af
Though maybe it's impossible to have rings and a cool bigass moon because gravity or something? Physicists, help a homie out.
Rings at a very basic level tend to be moons that could be, or could have been, if they were higher in orbit such that gravity wouldn't tear the moon apart. They can also be from moons or even planets colliding, the debris in the aftermath forming the rings, which if not too low in orbit, could reform into a moon as well, which seems likely to be how our own moon formed.