The very first image of a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun has been confirmed.

They really did it; they bagged a planet!




http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/?p=30

Theres been so many different claims that someone has found a planet orbiting a star, but this is some neat evidence.

Great. I hope this holds up.

Wow, most of those extrasolar planets orbit really close to their stars, and that's the only way they can find them. I wonder how they located this one.

Did you read the link I posted?


"As our technology gets better, we’ll find lower and lower mass planets. Then there may well be a quantum leap:"
NASA plans on building space telescopes which can image planets the size of Earth, normal, mature planets, just like Earth, if they’re out there.

I think they are, and I think we’ll see them. I wonder. My brothers son is 4 years old. By the time he is in college, taking an astronomy class — will his professor show him an image of a world with blue oceans, green and brown continents, white clouds… orbiting Alpha Centauri?

Gimmie a break, I just skimmed it ... cool story, I didn't know we had that capability.

Yay, that's great!!

That article is dated April 29th, 2005, how come this is the first we've heard of it?

Or did we all miss this back in April?

Could it be a conspiracy.

more information here
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0504...planet_pic.html

hmm This article seems to be posted on the 1st of april 2005............

I don't believe the article...call me a skeptic...

Sorry I just skimmed it too, it's a little long for me.. I'm sorry if that offends you, but shiny things mess me up, ADD brother.

Lets hope this is just the first of many in the future, I cant wait to see what we will be finding in the next 10/20 years as our technology advances

^It will indeed be very exciting to see what we discover with our telescopic technology advancing so quickly. In our lifetime we should get to see many amazing sights!

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