New Transiting Extrasolar Planet

Shooter6947 writes "A new transiting extrasolar planet has been announced -- the only other known object that passes between its star and the Earth each orbit, a situation known as a transit, is HD209458b. The new planet, OGLE-TR-56b, is 0.9 times the mass of our own Jupiter and 1.3 times Jupiter's radius. It is the closest-in extrasolar planet yet found, with its year being only 1.2 days! Read about it from a cnn.com article or from the original scientific paper."

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I like science.

[Faldgan]

Things like this make me feel good about the human race. Sure, we're rather argumentative, and spend most of our time fighting ourselves, but there is a chance that one day we won't. Right now we behave like a bored puppy that's been stuck inside the small kennel all of it's life. We might find something to do one of these days. We are finally figuring out how to look out the wire mesh that makes up our door, and noticing that there are other wire mesh cages out there. Whee!!! We (as a race) are growing. We're improving ourselves. We don't have very good control of our parts yet. (our "USA" part is about to launch an attack on our "Iran" part) but we *are* opening our eyes, and we *are* looking out there.