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  Artist’s conception of the extrasolar ring system circling the young giant planet or brown   dwarf J1407b. The rings are shown eclipsing the young sun-like star J1407, as they would have appeared in early 2007. Credit:   Ron Miller J1407b is the first brown dwarf planet discovered with the rings by the transit method. The star is situated in the constellation of Centaurus with at a distance of 433.8 light-years away from the earth. It was discovered by Eric Mamajek (an American astronomer). It is also known as the super Saturn because it has a ring-like structure around it comprising of gas, dust, and ice like Saturn. The ring system is roughly 200 times  larger than Saturn. However, the planetary science community has theorized for decades that planets like  Jupiter and Saturn had rings around them at the early stage of their formation that led to the formations of their natural satellite that we see today. Until this planet was d...