When the University of Rochester’s Eric Mamajek tells other astronomers
about the object he and his colleagues discovered about 430 light-years
from Earth, they tend to be skeptical—very skeptical. And no wonder:
What he’s found is a giant ring system, sort of like Saturn’s, but some
200 times bigger, circling what may be an exoplanet between ten and 40
times the size of Jupiter.
For the complete story, go to Time.
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