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First Confirmed Image of a Newborn Planet Revealed (theguardian.com)
Astronomers say they now have the first confirmed image of the formation of a planet. The Guardian reports: The startling snapshot shows a bright blob -- the nascent planet -- traveling through the dust and gas surrounding a young star, known as PDS70, thought to be about 370 light years from Earth. The black circle in the centre of the image, to the left of the planet, is a filter to block the light from the star, enabling other features of the system to be seen.
"These discs around young stars are the birthplaces of planets, but so far only a handful of observations have detected hints of baby planets in them," said Miriam Keppler of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, a lead author of the research published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. However, other ground-based observations have not yielded conclusive evidence. "The problem is that until now, most of these planet candidates could just have been features in the disc," she said. "The advantage of our detection is that we have detected [the new planet] with several different observing instruments, different filter bands and different years," she added. This research was presented in two papers, entitled "Discovery of a planetary-mass companion within the gap of the transition disk around PDS 70" and "Orbital and atmospheric characterization of the planet within the gap of the PDS 70 transition disk," both to be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
"These discs around young stars are the birthplaces of planets, but so far only a handful of observations have detected hints of baby planets in them," said Miriam Keppler of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, a lead author of the research published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. However, other ground-based observations have not yielded conclusive evidence. "The problem is that until now, most of these planet candidates could just have been features in the disc," she said. "The advantage of our detection is that we have detected [the new planet] with several different observing instruments, different filter bands and different years," she added. This research was presented in two papers, entitled "Discovery of a planetary-mass companion within the gap of the transition disk around PDS 70" and "Orbital and atmospheric characterization of the planet within the gap of the PDS 70 transition disk," both to be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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What is the angle of the transition disk of PDS 70 relative to Earth over time?
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Why not discuss global warming or super-duper batteries? Or maybe we could talk about Solo or Jedi or something like that instead. Just sayin'
Are these people jerking off while watching that kind of picture? They really need to get a life.
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It's a fun holiday with Bar-B-Cue and hot dogs and potato chips and coke cola and ice cold beer and corn on the cob. And then watermelon and ice cream. It is fun and I like fun.
Also when it gets dark there will be fireworks and firecrackers and sparklers and smokey snakes!
Here's a quick fun fireworks recipe (totally safe!). Mix 1/2 cup of Saltpeter with 1/2 cup of Sugar. Sometimes you will find saltpeter at the farm store or hardware store but it will be called potassium nitrate. Anyhow when you ignite a 50/50 mixture of sugar and saltpeter it will make a brilliant pinkish purplish flame and tons and tons of smoke and it will leave a cinder that looks like those little snake pellets that you light. You don't have to put the mixture in any kind of container just a little scoop of it on the ground is fine. It makes one heck of a smoke screen, lots and lots and lots of smoke!
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I wonder how hot something would have to burn to be as bight as the mid-day sun? Like the thermite cutter charge that was ignited prematurely in the corner of the building when the second plane hit... here's the video "scientists", go make some "news" with it (to use both words very loosly):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aRWy25VYXTrv30dZpe_kbS4GdJWYi-7I
Somebody is deploying the galactic Batman signal :)
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I hope everyone realizes that since we're seeing happen right now and that the new planet is roughly 370 light years away, this actually happened roughly 370 years ago.
I wonder what it looks like today.
The VLT is a fantastic piece of kit
SHOCKER! I remember a few Jehovah Witnesses adamantly told me that their god created planets for us humans. They thought it inconceivable that nature could do it on its own.
It's a Rock Blobster!
... reveal the gender yet!
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It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I hope someone slapped it on the asteroid after it was born...
If its "About 370 lightyears away" from Earth....
That means its actually "About 370" years old already and that what they're seeing happened about 370 years ago.
Correct?