Super-Saturn: astronomers find a massive ring system around …
Jan 27, 2015 · Astronomers, 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.
J1407b: Super-Saturn - Science@NASA
Jan 26, 2015 · Artist’s conception of the extrasolar ring system circling the young giant planet or brown dwarf J1407b. The rings are shown eclipsing the young sun-like star J1407, as they would have appeared in early 2007.
Super Saturn: J1407b - Our Planet
Aug 10, 2019 · J1407b is an infamous gas giant with a gargantuan ring system which is located 434 light-years away from Earth. It can also be a brown dwarf - which is bigger than a gas giant, but still, are not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion.
Discovery: ‘Super Saturn’ with rings 200 times as big - CNN
Jan 29, 2015 · Using powerful optics, they have found a much larger planet-like body, J1407b, with rings 200 times the size of Saturn’s, U.S. and Dutch astronomers said.
This Super-Saturn Alien Planet Might Be the New 'Lord of the …
Feb 3, 2015 · A newly discovered exoplanet contains 37 rings nearly 200 times larger than Saturn's ring system. To boot, a large gap in the rings suggests the presence of at least one Earth- or Mars-size...
Newly Discovered 'Super Saturn' Has Colossal Ring System
Jan 27, 2015 · "You could think of it as kind of a super Saturn." The planet is too far away to see the rings directly, so instead, the team analysed data captured by the SuperWASP project - a survey that that detects gas giants that move in front of their parent star and dim their light - …
Super Saturn Exoplanet Has Largest Known Ring System
Nov 9, 2022 · Saturn’s major rings stretch over a distance of 175,000 miles (282,000 kilometers), making them the largest ring system in the solar system. However, Saturn’s rings are tiny when compared to a distant exoplanet nicknamed “Super Saturn.”
Super Saturn – How does a planet maintain rings 200 times larger …
Feb 27, 2020 · Meet J1407b – an exoplanet 20 times more massive than Saturn. The rings of this Super Saturn span 180 million kilometers wide. That’s larger than the Earth-Sun distance of 150 million kilometers and 200 times bigger than Saturn’s rings! Make no mistake, J1407b is the true Lord of the Rings.
High atmospheric metal enrichment for a Saturn-mass planet
Mar 27, 2023 · Here we show that the Saturn-mass exoplanet HD 149026b (refs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) has an atmospheric metallicity 59–276 times solar (at 1 σ), which is greater than Saturn’s atmospheric metallicity...
Mega-Saturn Found 434 Light-Years From Earth - The Escapist
Jan 27, 2015 · A team of Dutch and American astronomers has discovered a new exoplanet with a ring system 200 times as big as Saturn’s.