Date: 29/01/2015 14:59:26
From: Divine Angel
ID: 668397
Subject: Faraway Planet has Giant Rings
Astronomers say they have found the first ringed planet beyond our solar system, a super world with a girdle of halos 200 times bigger than Saturn’s.
Called J1407b, the giant has a disk of 30-odd rings which is so vast that had it been around Saturn, it would have dominated our night sky.
“It’d be huge. You’d see the rings and the gaps in the rings quite easily from Earth,” Matthew Kenworthy of the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands said.
“It’d be several times the size of the full moon.”
