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Extra-solar Planet Imaged

Posted by michael on from the icu dept.

bdb111 writes "European astronomers have taken what may be the first picture of an extra-solar planet. The possible planet orbits a brown dwarf star 230 light years away."

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  1. Ummmm .... by gstoddart · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This was posted yesterday and nobody on slashdot has commented on this yet?

    My god. Before '95 we suspected other planets would have to exist. Now we've not only cataloged over 120 of them but might have grabbed an image of one -- and no geek has at least said anything?

    Hell, some of the really freaky planetary systems they've found are just amazing. Think of something bigger than Jupiter orbiting way closer than the Earth to Sol but doing it's 'annual' orbit in about 4 days.

    Starting to get an idea of the type of solar systems that have formed just sounds absolutely cool. Lots of 'em are bound to be completely uninhabitable, but being able to locate planets is just mind-boggling.

    What, no science geeks left on ./?

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