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Exoplanet Found In Old Hubble Image

Posted by Soulskill on from the old-but-new dept.

Kristina at Science News writes "A new way to process images reveals an extrasolar planet that had been hiding in an 11-year-old Hubble picture. After ground-based telescopes found three planets orbiting the young star HR 8799, a team took that information and reprocessed some 11-year-old Hubble Space Telescope images. Voila. There was one of the three planets, captured by Hubble but not visible until new knowledge could see the picture in a fresh light. The technique could reveal hidden treasures in many archived telescope images." For reference, the first exoplanet to be (knowingly) directly imaged was 2M1207_b in late 2004.

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  1. when you see it, you'll shit bricks? by citizenr · · Score: -1, Troll

    is this one of those
    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2352/2263155065_40878c77d5_o.jpg
    situations?
    or more like 'Virgin Mary' toast where you have to imagine what you should see and then your brain lies to you and it appears?

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