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 May 1 2005, 05:00 PM
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QUOTE Last year astronomers had photographed a red speck orbiting a distant brown dwarf –or a failed star-outside the solar system. It was debated whether it was indeed a new planet or just another failed star. Now it is beyond doubt. With the help of new clearer images it has now been confirmed to be a giant planet orbiting the star. New images taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in northern Chile conclude that the first planet found outside the solar system is about 5 times the size of Jupiter. The planet, which is situated in the Hydra constellation, is nearly 230 light years from the earth, and is orbiting the failed star at a distance of about 5 billion miles that is approximately twice the distance from which Neptune orbits about the sun. Spectroscopic measurements suggests the presence of water vapor in its atmosphere leading to the belief that it is cold like a planet rather than hot like a star. The head of the observatory team Gael Chauvin, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, said, "Our new images show convincingly that this really is a planet, the first planet that has ever been imaged outside of our solar system". Another member Benjamin Zuckerman, who is the professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA said, “I’m more than 99 percent confident. This is also the first time that a planet outside of our solar system has been detected far from a star or brown dwarf -- nearly twice as far as the distance between Neptune and the sun." Gael Chauvin and his colleagues write in the paper, “This discovery offers new perspectives for our understanding of chemical and physical properties of planetary mass objects as well as their mechanisms of formation." This new finding has been approved to be published in the future issues of Astronomy and Astrophysics, an astronomy journal. What do you think about that. |
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May 1 2005, 05:05 PM
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 wanderlust personified. Group: Official Designer Posts: 7,515 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 797 |
How exciting! I've always been fascinated by Astronomy and the contents of our universe outside our own galaxy. Very cool.
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May 1 2005, 05:10 PM
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Oh, that's really cool! I wanna see a pic of the planet they found, though.
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May 1 2005, 05:14 PM
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that's great and very interesting.
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May 1 2005, 05:21 PM
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 °¤*Kandii Giirl*¤° Group: Member Posts: 202 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 128,876 |
Yea, they were talkin about that yesterday on that Aol news thing. I bet they did find another planet. In my opinion, I bet there's more than juss 9 ol' planets. But anyway, I'm not a big fan of Science. =/
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May 1 2005, 05:21 PM
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Wow the thing i love about Space is that it's so unpredictable. It is so cool they found a new planet, I mean pretty sure they did, hmm i wonder what there going to name it?
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May 1 2005, 05:22 PM
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cool. ya think theres another form of life??
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May 1 2005, 05:24 PM
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I think that the whole idea of millions of other galaxies in the universe and astronomy in general is really interesting. It's cool to know that maybe there might be other life forms and thousands of other planets.
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May 1 2005, 05:27 PM
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QUOTE(xquizit @ May 1 2005, 5:05 PM) How exciting! I've always been fascinated by Astrology and the contents of our universe outside our own galaxy. Very cool.  yeah me too! for some reason, ive always listened intentively in school when we are learning about astronomy. we are right now.  i actually heard about there being another planet...i was also intrigued by how some scientists thought that pluto wasn't an actual planet....that it is one of jupiter or saturn's (cant remember which one) moons. pretty interesting.
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May 1 2005, 05:38 PM
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Dude, i'm so interested in outter space since i was a 3rd grader. Its the best thing to learn part of the science. Man, where can i get to see the photograph ? i'm pretty sure there are many discoveries beyond pluto. i heard over 200 planets are discover.
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May 1 2005, 06:47 PM
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thats so cool. I've always wondered about other planets, and other galaxy's... I love living in such a technologiacal(sp) time
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May 1 2005, 07:23 PM
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Wow, that's really interesting. These stuff about the solar system has always caught my interest.
I've never heard of a brown dwarf.  But that's real cool. Another new discovery. Yay! The world is being advanced in technology.
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May 1 2005, 07:31 PM
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 dakishimetainoni... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,322 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 75,318 |
QUOTE the first planet found outside the solar system is about 5 times the size of Jupiter. wow that's really huge it's about time that we discovered that we're not the only ones out here...  i wish we were more advanced...i'll never be able to live on another planet like the jetsons do 
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May 1 2005, 07:34 PM
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I am actually in an astronomy class and I love it. We havent gone over this news on this planet but I will certainly talk to my teacher about it tommorrow
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| *Statistik* |
May 1 2005, 07:39 PM
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interesting..
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May 1 2005, 08:19 PM
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QUOTE(caytexo @ May 1 2005, 3:27 PM) yeah me too! for some reason, ive always listened intentively in school when we are learning about astronomy. we are right now. i actually heard about there being another planet...i was also intrigued by how some scientists thought that pluto wasn't an actual planet....that it is one of jupiter or saturn's (cant remember which one) moons. pretty interesting.Neptune. Pluto can't even get close enought to say, " hi " to those two. While it sometimes becomes the 8th planet due to its weird orbit. But yeah.. it isn't even a planet... - Solipsist |
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May 1 2005, 08:36 PM
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Wow, interesting.
Astrology is always unpredictable, you'll never know what they're gonna find next. |
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May 1 2005, 08:38 PM
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QUOTE Wow, interesting. Astrology is always unpredictable, you'll never know what they're gonna find next Astronomy. Astrology is like horoscopes .. i think anyway, cool! I wonder if there's anything on it |
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May 1 2005, 08:39 PM
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QUOTE(lolthissiteisfunny @ May 1 2005, 6:38 PM) Astronomy. Astrology is like horoscopes .. i think  - Solipsist |
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May 1 2005, 09:17 PM
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 what do you think it says....if so obvious. Group: Member Posts: 1,838 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 52,420 |
QUOTE(lolthissiteisfunny @ May 1 2005, 8:38 PM) Astronomy. Astrology is like horoscopes .. i think anyway, cool! I wonder if there's anything on it yea ...your right learn your words kids = ) |
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May 1 2005, 09:23 PM
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hmm interesting. thats pretty cool actually. astronomy has always been fascinating.
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May 1 2005, 09:28 PM
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 A.K.A. Simplicityxx Group: Member Posts: 1,878 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 56,813 |
I have always thought that astronomy was interesting. I mean, to think that the universe could be.. endless.. is mind boggling; but then again, it might just end somewhere..
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May 1 2005, 11:33 PM
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It's not surprising, but it's pretty cool. ^_^
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May 1 2005, 11:40 PM
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QUOTE(xquizit @ May 1 2005, 3:05 PM) How exciting! I've always been fascinated by Astrology and the contents of our universe outside our own galaxy. Very cool. I know me too. Yay! I find this very exiciting as well. I'm defenelty going to bring this up when we start astronomy which is in..a week. YAY! |
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May 2 2005, 02:29 AM
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haha only one word. neat. haha :O
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