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Phil Plait reports on an unconfirmed image from a Hawaiian telescope that appears to show a planet in orbit around a remote yellow star. Whoa.
We've been discovering extrasolar planets for many years now, but unless I'm mistaken, we have yet to actually snap a discrete piccie of one. This would be hella cool.
Edit OK, was msitaken: we've shot a planet around a brown dwarf before. But yellow stars are more exciting.
We've been discovering extrasolar planets for many years now, but unless I'm mistaken, we have yet to actually snap a discrete piccie of one. This would be hella cool.
Edit OK, was msitaken: we've shot a planet around a brown dwarf before. But yellow stars are more exciting.
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:02 pm (UTC)I remember when the possibility of imaging the disk of a star was considered to be moonshine. Now it's pretty routine. I fully expect that by the time I'm old and grey we'll be imaging the disks of extra-solar planets, probably using some huge-ass space-based interferometric array.
What a great time to be alive.
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