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Astronomers Find Vast Ring System Eclipsing a Distant Star

Posted by Soulskill on from the one-ring-to-occlude-them-all dept.

Zothecula writes: Astronomers from the Leiden Observatory, Netherlands, and the University of Rochester, New York, have discovered a massive ring system obscuring the light of the young star J1407b. It is believed that the rings belong to a massive planet or possibly a brown dwarf, with an orbital period of roughly 10 years. The giant planet boasts a ring system around 200 times larger than that of Saturn, the only planet in our solar system hosting a ring system of its own."

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  1. Wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Neptune
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Jupiter