Four panels showing a series of events in the saga of J1407b. Panel 1: 2007 - Transit A ringed planet transits across a star (or maybe something that looks like a star?) Panel 2: ~2012? - Attack! A giant hungry anglerfish appears behind the ringed planet. Apparently these anglerfish like to eat planets. Panel 3: 2017 - Swimming away Having eaten the planet (and its rings), the anglerfish swims away from J1407b. The glowing lure is labelled "ALMA object". Panel 4: 2024 - Lure switched off To better camouflage and avoid even worse predators, the anglerfish switches off its lure as it swims to the next planetary system.

No idea what's going on with elusive #exoring #J1407b but here's a possibility which I don't think has been entirely ruled out yet, which I call the "Dark Bramble hypothesis".

🪐Humanization of J-1407-b✨

(I call him as a Jack Robertson)

#spase #J1407b #SuperSaturn #Exoplanet #humanization #drawing #art (?) #astronomy #foryou

#j1407b

Light curve of Bojajian's star, showing no variability from 1920 to 1980.

Inverted photos of white on black images of GK Per, showing the expansion of a shell of ejected material over 1914 to 1953.

Astronomical photographic plates enable time domain science, including searches for transiting #exoring systems such as #J1407b, so I was happy to see Enke+ “Archives of Photographic PLates for Astronomical USE (APPLAUSE)" that includes a light curve for Boyajian’s star #astrodon 🪐🔭

Detecting and Characterizing Exomoons and Exorings (Handbook of... The circumplanetary environments in our Solar System host a stunning array of moon and ring systems. Study of these environs has yielded valuable insights into planetary system formation and...

An excellent review by @alexteachey on "Detecting and Characterizing Exomoons and Exorings" arxiv.org/abs/2401.13293 - this is required reading if you want to have an overview of these fields 🔭🪐 #exomoon #exoring #J1407b

A middle aged man proudly holding a print of the J1407b ring system seen from just above the ring plane. Two planetoids are embedded in the ring plane, glowing dull red with formation. The nearer planetoid is stirring up wave-like structures in the rings, similar to those seen in Saturn's rings.

Just got a print 🔭 of @VitkusJustinas
wonderful rendering of the #J1407b ring system 🪐 for one of my Christmas presents! It looks fantastic :) It will be going up on my office wall for inspiration! #SpaceArt