Tag Archive for 'super-Saturn'

Illustration depicting one interpretation of the exoplanet GJ 357d. Image credit: Chris Smith / NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Giant Exoplanets Are Potential ‘Agents of Chaos’ in Multiplanet Systems, Astronomers Say

Oct 31, 2023 by News Staff

Two new papers in the Astronomical Journal show that in some multiplanet systems, giant planets tend to kick their smaller neighbors out of orbit and wreak...

Ringed Gas Giant Discovered Orbiting Young Star PDS 110

May 31, 2017 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers have identified that the light from PDS 110 is regularly blocked by a large object — and they predict that these eclipses are caused...

The rings of J1407b are shown eclipsing the young Sun-like star J1407. Image credit: Ron Miller.

Super-Saturn J1407b Hosts Massive Ring System, Astronomers Say

Jan 27, 2015 by News Staff

Dr Matthew Kenworthy of Leiden Observatory and Prof Eric Mamajek of the University of Rochester have discovered a so-called super-Saturn exoplanet with...