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kayshapero) wrote2015-01-28 03:36 pm
kayshapero) wrote2015-01-28 03:36 pm
Some have rings, others LPs!
Stupendous Ring System Discovered Around 'Super Saturn' Exoplanet
The Huffington Post | By Macrina Cooper-White
Posted: 01/28/2015 8:38 am EST Updated: 01/28/2015 9:59 am EST
Call it Saturn on steroids! Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with an enormous ring system that far surpasses Saturn's.
“This planet is much larger than Jupiter or Saturn, and its ring system is roughly 200 times larger than Saturn’s rings are today,” Dr. Eric Mamajek, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester and the leader of the team of astronomers, said in a written statement. “You could think of it as kind of a super Saturn.”
Artist’s conception of the extrasolar ring system around exoplanet J1407b. The rings are shown
eclipsing the young sun-like star J1407, as they would have appeared in early 2007.
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The Huffington Post | By Macrina Cooper-White
Posted: 01/28/2015 8:38 am EST Updated: 01/28/2015 9:59 am EST
Call it Saturn on steroids! Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with an enormous ring system that far surpasses Saturn's.
“This planet is much larger than Jupiter or Saturn, and its ring system is roughly 200 times larger than Saturn’s rings are today,” Dr. Eric Mamajek, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester and the leader of the team of astronomers, said in a written statement. “You could think of it as kind of a super Saturn.”
Artist’s conception of the extrasolar ring system around exoplanet J1407b. The rings are shown
eclipsing the young sun-like star J1407, as they would have appeared in early 2007.
(More)