Photo of First Extra-Solar Planet?

Posted by chrisd on Monday November 26, 2001 @01:46PM from the scoping-future-homes-for-cmdrtaco dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "According to NASA 'A major discovery from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope about a planet outside our Solar System will be announced in a Space Science Update on 27 November. The discovery marks an important new capability in efforts to uncover secrets about these newly discovered extrasolar planets.' Given the names of the individuals listed as speakers at this event, plus previous press releases and published papers, it is likely that the topic of discussion will focus upon planet(s) circling the sunlike star HD 209458."

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Misleading Science Title by mkasei · 2001-11-27 14:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

The title of this thread is misleading. The discovery is that the researches have detected the *first* atmosphere around an extrasolar planet. This is indeed big news. The planet is Jupiter size and revolves around a sun like star about 150 light years away. Congrats to the researchers.