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Hubble Snaps Photo of Extrasolar Planet

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. I HATE ALL OF YOU! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Go to hell please!

    Love Always,
    News For Turds

  2. Nothing to see here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I went to the linked article, and slashdot was right!

  3. Indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    After the christmas festivities, I discovered the only way to find my belly button was to carefully watch the wobbles in my new layers of flab.

  4. If we can do it twice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So...why don't we do this more often?