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Felix Rex  Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16662 Location: On a slope 
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  first alien planet photographedThis is so cool... it wasn't so long ago we were first picking up alien planets by detecting occlusions and wobbles in stars caused by planetary gravity. Now we have our first actual photograph. How freaking awesome.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/f ... 00629.html Granted, the planet is 8x the mass of jupiter and orbits its star at 300 AUs (300x the distance of Earth from the Sun). But it's only a matter of time before we refine our capabilities to detect smaller objects. _________________ They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
| Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:31 am |
 
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Minor Diety  Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7721 Location: Centre of the sun
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Re: first alien planet photographed Alien is a misleading world. Extra-solar would be more suitable.
_________________ "Well a very, very hevate, ah, heavy duh burtation tonight. We had a very derrist derrison, bite, let's go ahead and terrist teysond those fullabit who have the pit." - Serene Branson |
| Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:24 am |
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Felix Rex Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16662 Location: On a slope
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Re: first alien planet photographed _________________ They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
| Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:09 pm |
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