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EXCLUSIVE: First Confirmed Picture of a Planet Beyond the Solar System
Space.com ^
| April 1, 2005
| Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 04/01/2005 11:35:44 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: conservativecorner
They have made three images using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. I knew these beasties at Paranal were going to be real barnburners when they get hooked up. It's big, it's hairy and will out-do Hubble when it starts cranking out the images. The VLT has a combined light-collecting power equivalent to that of a 16-meter (630-inch) telescope.
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04/01/2005 2:30:02 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Information is power and power is nothing without control.)
To: conservativecorner
I think it is a brown dwarf star. I just don't see how they can tell the difference between that and heat from condensation pressure from an object glowing on its own rather than from reflected light.
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04/01/2005 2:44:01 PM PST
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
To: TheBigB
If my math is correct, that planet is further from its sun than pluto is from the sun... and if that's visible, chances are there may be class M planets in that system not visible to our current imaging capabilities.....
Mr. and Mrs. Cochrane need to get busy to have Zephram get born....
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04/01/2005 4:23:02 PM PST
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Schwaeky
(TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE---IMPEACH THE WHOLE JUDICIAL BRANCH)
To: scab4faa
now we need to see if there's an arid planet w/ N02 atmosphere around Epsilon Eridani (real Trekkies know which planet I'm speaking of, so I'll let them figure it out)...
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04/01/2005 4:25:08 PM PST
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Schwaeky
(TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE---IMPEACH THE WHOLE JUDICIAL BRANCH)
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; ...
I can't wait to find an Earth like planet.
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posted on
04/01/2005 4:55:55 PM PST
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KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: KevinDavis; conservativecorner
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04/01/2005 6:01:48 PM PST
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MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: KevinDavis
I can't wait to find an Earth like planet. You and me both. :-)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
I think it is a brown dwarf star. Has there been discovered any planet outside of our solar system that is not like Jupiter (i.e., not a failed star or brown dwarf)? I think it's great that they have discovered these objects but to me this discovery is just a binary system where one of the "stars" is too small to burn as a star. It would be really interesting if they found a planet other than a gas giant, but our technology might not currently be able to detect anything smaller than Jupiter.
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
I propose that we call this planet....Clintonia...in honor of his majesty...Omar Bill Clinton.
To: Lee'sGhost
Gays: Uranus is just a Black Hole where ju put Jupiter.
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04/02/2005 1:01:38 AM PST
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UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
To: Lee'sGhost
ROTFLMAO! Gotta remember that one!
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06/29/2006 12:50:49 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006.)
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10/10/2006 10:13:18 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Wilhelm Tell
A brown dwarf needs to be about 13x Jupiter's mass.
However, Jupiter gives off more energy than it receives.
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