The alien Saturn on steroids! Planet with 30 huge rings discovered 420 light years away
Channel: Aliens insider
Date: 2015-06-13

The alien Saturn on steroids! Planet with 30 huge rings discovered 420 light years away - and each one is tens of MILLIONS of miles wide
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From edge-to-edge, Saturn's ring system would be too big to fit in the distance between Earth and the moon.

But now a new ring system has been found that dwarfs Saturn's enormous structure – and it's the first of its kind to be seen outside our solar system.

Astronomers discovered more than 30 rings eclipsing the very young sun-like star J1407, each of them tens of millions of miles in diameter.

The rings were first spotted in 2012 by the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, and the University of Rochester in New York.

A new analysis of the data, led by Leiden's Matthew Kenworthy, shows that there are gaps in the rings, which indicate that exomoons may have formed in the space.

'The details that we see in the light curve are incredible,' said Professor Kenworthy.