Comments on: Researchers Find First Picture of An Exoplanet! (In 11-Year-Old Hubble Data) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/02/researchers-find-first-picture-of-an-exoplanet-in-11-year-old-hubble-data/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Wed, 16 May 2012 19:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/02/researchers-find-first-picture-of-an-exoplanet-in-11-year-old-hubble-data/comment-page-1/#comment-22434 Nick Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:58:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/02/researchers-find-first-picture-of-an-exoplanet-in-11-year-old-hubble-data/#comment-22434 Our tentacles of knowledge extend through the universe like roots of a mind-tree growing out of this earth that has given birth to us. Should we live long enough, we might just touch everything out there with our sensing techniques. 100 years ago, no one would have believed you if you went around talking about discovering extra-solar planets. You might just be thrown out on your ear for saying "extra-solar." :) Now, who doesn't talk about planets around other stars? Our tentacles of knowledge extend through the universe like roots of a mind-tree growing out of this earth that has given birth to us. Should we live long enough, we might just touch everything out there with our sensing techniques.

100 years ago, no one would have believed you if you went around talking about discovering extra-solar planets. You might just be thrown out on your ear for saying “extra-solar.” :) Now, who doesn’t talk about planets around other stars?

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