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.
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