Here’s the true Lord of the Rings! 1SWASP J1407 b is an exoplanet or possibly a small star located in the constellation…

Here’s the true Lord of the Rings!

1SWASP J1407 b is an exoplanet or possibly a small star located in the constellation Centaurus, approximately 433.8 light-years from Earth.

Its ring system is not only the first discovered beyond our Solar System but also the largest ever observed. The radius of its largest ring is estimated at a staggering 90 million kilometers. For comparison, Saturn’s largest ring measures only about 480,000 kilometers in radius.

With a mass roughly 20 times that of Jupiter, scientists are still debating how to classify 1SWASP J1407 b. It might be an extremely large exoplanet or a small star—specifically, a brown dwarf.
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