Why did everyone fall for the J1407b myth?

J1407b, the "super saturn" or "saturn on steroids" doesn't exist. We've known it doesn't exist for years. So why do so many people still believe this exoplanet is real?

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[krykoe]

I feel like I just learned Santa isn’t real

[c.o.y]

Maybe the real J1407b was the friends we made along the way

[Flesh_Wizard]

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

[CapitalTeeth]

Short answer is because googling j1407b doesn't give any results that it doesn't exist.

[JaskPlays]

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

[Astraenon]

J1407b just got the biggest nerf in history💀

[idontknow]

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.

[eldraque]

excellent "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Churchill

[Evil_Jyan]

J1407bians copyright strike this video

[lasajnae]

"J1407B doesn't exist"
Sounds like some SCP article lmao

[michaelchance]

So it is actually a brown dwarf with rings that will eventually form planets.
How is that not way cooler than before?

[williamsutton]

This actually makes a lot more sense than what you see when you look up “how does j1407b have such big rings.”

[georgeluvspotato]

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

[magiko]

Another problem is that people misunderstand what science is truly all about. A lot of it isn't supposed to be established and irrefutable information. It is subject to change based on further discoveries.

The more people catch on to this, the better.

[Sirmatthaeus]

Well this certainly sucks, I had no idea there was a misinformation problem of such proportions in the scientific community.

[pezpeculiar]

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!

[JustAGoatt]

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.

[marshallthedalmatian]

Imagine if a planet with comically large ring actually existed and we just dont know it yet and it isnt j1407e

[TheAbyssalEnderling]

I feel obligated to change my desktop wallpaper from an image of the supposed J1407b to a cool image of Jupiter.

[fatperson]

8:30 I appreciate the "in case you are just listening" as someone who listens to alot of videos in the background