Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory and the University of Rochester have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of enormous proportions, much ...
Meticulous analysis of hundreds of photographic plates from the star J1407 between 1890 and 2007 show no stellar eclipses. Robin Mentel, a master student at Leiden University, could not detect ...
New research shows that the system around the star - called J1407 - consists of over 30 rings, each of them tens of millions of kilometres across. "This planet is much larger than Jupiter or Saturn," ...