Why did everyone fall for the J1407b myth?
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Published 2024-06-29
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Footage in this video taken using Space Engine
Sources:
arxiv.org/pdf/1912.03314.pdf
arxiv.org/abs/1810.05171
arxiv.org/pdf/2106.15902.pdf
All Comments (21)
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Maybe the real J1407b was the friends we made along the way
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J1407b just got the biggest nerf in historyđź’€
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Short answer is because googling j1407b doesn't give any results that it doesn't exist.
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I'd say the idea of "planet with enormous rings" is what provided the initial hook to J1407b. Saturn's rings are beautiful, imagine a planet with rings many times larger than Saturn's. And the problem only grew from there
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J1407bians copyright strike this video
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In my opinion, the fact that j1047b is actually just a rogue brown dwarf that just so happened to pass by a star for us to see, is such an absurdly miniscule occurance for us to even see, and I will ALWAYS find that cooler than the weird science fiction belief of it having comicallly large rings.
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So it is actually a brown dwarf with rings that will eventually form planets. How is that not way cooler than before?
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"J1407B doesn't exist" Sounds like some SCP article lmao
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excellent "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Churchill
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This actually makes a lot more sense than what you see when you look up “how does j1407b have such big rings.”
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so from my understanding, J1407b exists but it doesn't have rings and it isn't a planet, it's a brown dwarf with a protoplanetary disk
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I feel like I just learned Santa isn’t real
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Well this certainly sucks, I had no idea there was a misinformation problem of such proportions in the scientific community.
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Kyplanet, you should really edit the Wikipedia page related to J1407b! It's the primary way that I know about it, and usually the editors fix errors pretty quickly, so I expect it to be fairly accurate. If it's refuted, Wikipedia should be clear about the current information!
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6:47 The Nasa communication issue part reminded be that if you search for Uranus and go to pictures, one of the first images is Neptune because that's the main image for the article.
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Give this guy a medal for telling us that this "planet" was not a planet, i thought it has the biggest rings, i respect this guy with my most distinguished respect, very good
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HD100546b had a yt short recently where it was all flashy and said 752x the mass of Jupiter.. all the comments pointed out how this would be a star. Its interesting you revive this conversation on exoplanet misinformation now and will be on the lookout
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8:30 I appreciate the "in case you are just listening" as someone who listens to alot of videos in the background
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I feel obligated to change my desktop wallpaper from an image of the supposed J1407b to a cool image of Jupiter.
