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Three more exoplanets photographed |
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Keck Observatory - 11/13/2008
The new solar system orbits the dusty young star (in Hercules) named HR8799, which is 140 light years away and about 1.5 times the size of our sun. Three planets, roughly 10, 10 and 7 times the mass of Jupiter, orbit the star. The sizes of the planets decrease with distance from the parent star, much like the giant planets do in our system.
HR 8799, b, c, and d
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Hubble Photographs Planet Orbiting Another Star |
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November 13, 2008
Fomalhaut is 25 light-years from Earth and is sixteen times brighter than our sun.
Fomalhaut b is the newly photographed planet about three times Jupiter's mass
and 10.7 billion miles from its sun, Fomalhaut.
Image credit: NASA Hubble, ESA, and P. Kalas, Univ. of California-Berkeley.
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Upcoming Sci-Fi Channel series |
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, November 11 @ 20:08:34 EST (0 reads)
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Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth |
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This was cross-posted on some of the Newsgroups; thought I'd share it.
You Ex27 and Starliners will appreciate this one: Full Article
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Posted by admin on Friday, October 31 @ 11:38:24 EDT (3 reads)
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Evidence found of solar system around nearby star |
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10/27/2008
WASHINGTON/McClathy Newspapers — For the first time, astronomers think that they've found evidence of an alien solar system around a star close enough to Earth to be visible to the naked eye.
They say that at least one and probably three or more planets are orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, 10.5 light-years — about 63 trillion miles — from Earth. Only eight stars are closer.
The host star, slightly smaller and cooler than our sun, is in the constellation Eridanus — the name of a mythological river — near Orion in the northern sky.
Epsilon Eridani is much younger than the sun, about 850 million years old compared with 4.5 billion years for our system.
"This really is a system like our solar system was when it was five times younger than it is now," said one of the discoverers, Massimo Marengo , an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. "It's like a time machine for our solar system."
"This system probably looks a lot like ours did when life first took root on Earth," said Dana Backman , of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. , the lead author of a report to be published Jan. 10 in The Astrophysical Journal .
SETI chose Epsilon Eridani as one of the first targets in its long — but so far vain — search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence in 1960.
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