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First pic of a planet orbiting a Sun-like star..?
Stu
post Sep 15 2008, 04:29 PM
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See also: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastro...-a-sunlike-star


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post Sep 19 2008, 06:32 PM
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We do have a very fine line, here -- it seems absurd to say that an imaging campaign by Hubble is proper, while an identical imaging campaign by Keck would be out of bounds.

He also explores the Cosmos who just sits and stares into the sky... rolleyes.gif

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- Stu   First pic of a planet orbiting a Sun-like star..?   Sep 15 2008, 04:29 PM
- - tasp   Interesting the planet is 330 AU from the star. I...   Sep 15 2008, 05:49 PM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (tasp @ Sep 15 2008, 06:49 PM) Inte...   Sep 15 2008, 09:17 PM
|- - JRehling   Interestingly, given the parameters, and if the se...   Sep 15 2008, 10:55 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Sep 15 2008, 01:17 PM...   Sep 16 2008, 12:04 AM
|- - brellis   This would also be the first time a potential plan...   Sep 16 2008, 03:16 AM
|- - Alan Stern   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Sep 16 2008, 01:0...   Sep 16 2008, 06:15 AM
|- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Sep 16 2008, 07:15 AM...   Sep 16 2008, 11:34 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Sep 15 2008, 11:15 PM...   Sep 16 2008, 02:48 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Sep 16 2008, 10:4...   Sep 16 2008, 04:05 PM
- - Juramike   And if there was a habitable world orbiting at 1 A...   Sep 15 2008, 09:59 PM
|- - JRehling   Also, those aliens have only have 5 million years ...   Sep 15 2008, 10:58 PM
|- - brellis   Are there (or were there) other stars in the neigh...   Sep 15 2008, 11:43 PM
|- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (brellis @ Sep 16 2008, 12:43 AM) A...   Sep 16 2008, 11:32 AM
- - ngunn   Greg, your thinking parallels mine on this topic m...   Sep 16 2008, 03:10 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 16 2008, 07:10 AM) . ....   Sep 16 2008, 04:39 PM
|- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Sep 16 2008, 05:3...   Sep 16 2008, 09:22 PM
- - PhilCo126   2M1207 was the first exo-planet "imaged...   Sep 16 2008, 05:42 PM
- - ngunn   It's a giant Sedna.   Sep 16 2008, 08:09 PM
- - Vultur   If a 'planet' formed from a nebula of its ...   Sep 16 2008, 11:03 PM
|- - JRehling   Some discussion here: http://www.astrobio.net/new...   Sep 17 2008, 12:33 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   JR, That's a great pair of articles! Here...   Sep 17 2008, 12:57 AM
||- - Stu   How long until we're stuck with "dwarf br...   Sep 17 2008, 05:50 AM
|||- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (Stu @ Sep 16 2008, 10:50 PM) How l...   Sep 17 2008, 03:32 PM
|||- - David   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Sep 17 2008, 03:3...   Sep 17 2008, 05:56 PM
|||- - brellis   I know - let's call it "Pluto"!   Sep 18 2008, 12:29 AM
||- - JRehling   Another thought on the classification: It's pr...   Sep 18 2008, 04:49 AM
|- - JRehling   If this recent paper is any indication, there isn...   Sep 18 2008, 03:44 AM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Sep 19 2008, 02:24 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (JRehling @ Sep 19 2008, 03:24 PM) ...   Sep 19 2008, 02:40 PM
- - ngunn   Spot on JR. I was thinking that astronomers must h...   Sep 18 2008, 11:16 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 18 2008, 03:16 AM) Spo...   Sep 18 2008, 02:50 PM
- - djellison   I would remind people of rule 1.9 http://www.unman...   Sep 18 2008, 05:46 PM
- - Greg Hullender   Digging around a little, it appears that brown dwa...   Sep 18 2008, 07:34 PM
- - Juramike   Are there diagnostic lithium bands in the near-IR ...   Sep 18 2008, 07:46 PM
- - ngunn   Fortunately there is a good definition of a subste...   Sep 18 2008, 09:39 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 18 2008, 11:39 PM) For...   Sep 18 2008, 09:42 PM
||- - ngunn   QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 18 2008, 10:42 PM) Y...   Sep 18 2008, 09:57 PM
||- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 18 2008, 01:57 PM) If ...   Sep 18 2008, 11:01 PM
||- - ngunn   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Sep 19 2008, 12:0...   Sep 19 2008, 11:05 AM
|- - brellis   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 18 2008, 02:39 PM) Rul...   Sep 18 2008, 11:34 PM
|- - David   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 18 2008, 10:39 PM) Ext...   Sep 19 2008, 01:07 AM
||- - djellison   QUOTE (David @ Sep 19 2008, 02:07 AM) a t...   Sep 19 2008, 07:01 AM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Sep 19 2008, 04:32 PM
- - Juramike   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 18 2008, 10:39 PM) Extrasolar ...   Sep 19 2008, 03:11 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (Juramike @ Sep 18 2008, 08:11 PM) ...   Sep 21 2008, 05:57 AM
- - dvandorn   We do have a very fine line, here -- it seems absu...   Sep 19 2008, 06:32 PM
|- - Pavel   Well, Keck is manned   Sep 19 2008, 07:37 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (Pavel @ Sep 19 2008, 02:37 PM) Wel...   Sep 19 2008, 08:06 PM
- - djellison   Hubble or Keck looking at some nebulae or frankly,...   Sep 19 2008, 07:38 PM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Sep 19 2008, 08:02 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (JRehling @ Sep 19 2008, 09:02 PM) ...   Sep 19 2008, 08:14 PM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Sep 19 2008, 08:20 PM
- - ngunn   I'd like to make an appeal at this point. I...   Sep 19 2008, 09:55 PM
- - Juramike   I'd like to second that appeal, as long as we ...   Sep 19 2008, 10:21 PM
|- - David   I've never taken the name "Unmanned Space...   Sep 20 2008, 04:29 AM
|- - djellison   Some people, PERHAPS, are, MAYBE over analyzing th...   Sep 20 2008, 06:42 AM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Sep 21 2008, 01:06 AM
- - dvandorn   Why, Douglas! You have managed to gather here...   Sep 20 2008, 06:54 AM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 20 2008, 02:54 AM) ...   Sep 20 2008, 03:35 PM
- - mps   QUOTE (David @ Sep 20 2008, 07:29 AM) Aft...   Sep 22 2008, 09:28 AM
- - djellison   Stop reading minutia detail into every single word...   Sep 22 2008, 11:55 AM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 22 2008, 07:55 AM)...   Sep 22 2008, 07:37 PM
- - Greg Hullender   I think it's fair, though, for people to be su...   Sep 22 2008, 02:06 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Sep 22 2008, 03:0...   Sep 22 2008, 02:40 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 22 2008, 07:40 AM)...   Sep 22 2008, 08:54 PM
- - Juramike   There is a Forum dedicated to Extrasolar Planets h...   Sep 22 2008, 05:06 PM
- - Hendrik   So if this thread is not in the appropriate sectio...   Sep 25 2008, 03:53 PM

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