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First Four-Exoplanet System Imaged

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the space-is-really-big dept.

Phoghat writes "Among the first exoplanet systems imaged was HR 8799. In 2008, a team led by Christian Marois at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada took a picture of the system, directly imaging three giant planets."

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  1. Re:Quite strange. by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 5, Funny

    loss of brightness due to osculation

    It is true that once the serious making out begins, higher mental function tends to shut down, but I don't think that was quite what you meant.

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  2. Re:Quite strange. by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    is somehow more reliable and more worthy of our trust than the Doppler shifts, wobbles and loss of brightness due to osculation!

    WTF is osculation?

    From Webster's:

    osculum (äskyoo lm, -ky-)
    noun pl. oscula -la (-l)
    any of the openings of a sponge though which water passes out

    Are you suggesting that the images have been passed through the pisser of a sponge?

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