Hubble Snaps Photo of Extrasolar Planet

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 11, 2005 @02:01AM from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.

iamlucky13 writes "Space.com has reported that a Hubble Space Telescope photo supports with a very high degree of confidence that a picture taken by the European Space Observatory does indeed show an extrasolar planet. As many readers know, planets outside our solar system are typically found by watching for wobbles in a star's orbit or for dimming caused by the planet crossing in front of its star. The ESO and Hubble images would represent the 1st and 2nd times that planets outside our solar system have been directly detected. The planet is about 5 times as massive as Jupiter and orbits a brown dwarf a little farther out than Pluto orbits our own sun."

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Re:Looks like a duck... by DeathByDuke · 2005-01-11 02:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Its the third Death Star. Too Bad for them we've spotted it.
Re:Bump on planet? by groyse · 2005-01-11 02:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

People say I'm overly analytical. I wonder why that is?