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Newly Formed Solar System
xPsi writes "An article in New Scientist reports that a team of astronomers from UC Berkeley and NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center have used the Hubble space telescope to image a dust
ring in orbit around Fomalhaut, a nearby star about 25 light years away.
The ring 'offers the best evidence yet that a nearby star is circled by a
newly formed solar system.' Oddly enough, from the Earth's vantage point,
the ring also happens to resemble The Eye of
Sauron. One Ring to rule them all, one Ring to find them..."
According to Wikipedia "A star system or stellar system is a group of stars (and possibly smaller bodies such as planets or asteroids) that orbit one another (systems with planetary bodies orbiting stars, are referred to as solar systems or planetary systems)." So really, if we want to get technical, "planetary system" would be the most appropriate. Not that it matters.
But one day Tom, he went and caught the River-daughter, in green gown, flowing hair, sitting in the rushes
Space is counter-intutive. We assume that repairing is normally cheaper than buying new thing. But escaping from Earth's gravity well is COSTLY. DAMN HUGE COSTLY. And you pay that cost in both cases (repair vs new). If repair mission hinders progress of development of new telescopes, then i say TO HELL with Hubble. New 'scopes have superior capabilities and in month can make more discoveries than Hubble in whole life. Enough to say.
What modern Obelix would say today? Of course, "Those crazy Americans!".