WASP’s “Super Saturn” feature for kids

The possible discovery of an exoplanet ring system, a “Super Saturn”, has featured in a Frontiers for Young Minds article aimed at scientists aged 8 to 15 years.

The suggestion of an exoplanetary ring system was an interpretation of the multiple dips in the lightcurve of a star, catalogued as 1SWASP J140747.93–394542.6, as observed in WASP-South data in 2007. The article gives a good introduction to the WASP project at an accessible level, complete with this image of the “Super Saturn”:

Illustration of the "Super Saturn" found in WASP data.