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First rings seen around exoplanet, 200 times bigger than Saturn's!



 
 
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Old January 27th 15, 03:09 PM posted to sci.astro
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default First rings seen around exoplanet, 200 times bigger than Saturn's!

http://astronomynow.com/2015/01/26/e...-than-saturns/

"Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, and the
University of Rochester, USA, have discovered that the ring system that
they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of enormous
proportions, much larger and heavier than the ring system of Saturn. The
ring system — the first of its kind to be found outside our Solar System
— was discovered in 2012 by a team led by Rochester’s Eric Mamajek.

A new analysis of the data, led by Leiden’s Matthew Kenworthy, shows
that the ring system consists of over 30 rings, each of them tens of
millions of kilometres in diameter. Furthermore, they found gaps in the
rings, which indicate that satellites (“exomoons”) may have formed. The
result has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal."
 




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