A small, barren planet orbits obliquely to the plane of a massive set of
concentric dust rings surrounding a brown dwarf of about 60 Jupiter masses. These
rings are evocative of Saturn's famous rings of rock and ice, however there is
likely no ice in the rings around this dwarf.
Recent
observations have revealed that some brown dwarfs may be surrounded by rings of
dust. While the origin of these rings, and the brown dwarfs themselves, is
unclear, it's thought that material from these rings may even coalesce into
planets, providing some brown dwarfs with their own solar systems.