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First alien solar system photographed
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| Krypton |
Aliens?
| quote: | First fuzzy photos of planets outside solar system
WASHINGTON – Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. The pictures show four likely planets that appear as specks of white, nearly indecipherable except to the most eagle-eyed experts. All are trillions of miles away — three of them orbiting the same star, and the fourth circling a different star.
None of the four giant gaseous planets are remotely habitable or remotely like Earth. But they raise the possibility of others more hospitable.
It's only a matter of time before "we get a dot that's blue and Earthlike," said astronomer Bruce Macintosh of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. He led one of the two teams of photographers.
"It is a step on that road to understand if there are other planets like Earth and potentially life out there," he said.
Macintosh's team used two ground-based telescopes, while the second team relied on photos from the 18-year-old Hubble Space Telescope to gather images of the exoplanets — planets that don't circle our sun. The research from both teams was published in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113...sci_new_planets |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
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Vagina? |
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| Yohan |
| more like eye of sauron |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
sauron!
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None of the four giant gaseous planets are remotely habitable or remotely like Earth. But they raise the possibility of others more hospitable. |
so how can they be 'alien' since there's no life forms? we find planets all the time. |
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| Frenchie |
| ...and he's watching us alll in the eeeeeeyeeeeeee of a tigerrrrrrrrrr. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| You can totally tell who is a ing nerd. They thought about the Eye of Sauron.:stongue: :stongue: |
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| jupiterone |
| i knew it, they used a mac |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
more like eye of sauron |
+1 :eek: |
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| Frenchie |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
Vagina? |
That looks like a very hot angry vagina. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Frenchie
That looks like Jenny's very hot angry vagina. fsst. |
Fixed imho. |
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| Lira |
Space raev!!!
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
more like eye of sauron |
Well yeah, but even the Eye of Sauron looked like a vagina. :o |
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