Comments on: HUGE EXOPLANET NEWS ITEMS: PICTURES!!!

By: mememememe

mememememe — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:10:28 +0000

well they did have pics of this before but they did NOT know this was a planet. they figured this out when they actally SAW it. its so tiny! .

By: Meep Zorp

Meep Zorp — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:17:51 +0000

Excellent! I will leave tomorrow to go and investigate it. Not! I am sure I will get there eventually if my ship holds up. I hope they like my dust since earth physics says I wouldn’t make the trip in time. BOL, Barf out Loud (I think I said it right but for some reason I forget) All in the name of Science though. I hope they take credit cards. Just kidding. I know they don’t. Any Plesian Mandorf knows THAT! BOL!!!

Get real. Who cares? Everyone knows that the people in that quadrant are a bunch of nimrods like on this planet and this sector. Sheesh. I would never go back there again even though the Farpasian women are pretty hot. Ask for the tentacle rub if you ever do decide to go and check out the Farpasian Love Squids. Wow! It’s great! You haven’t lived until you’ve had some personal tentacle if you know what I mean. BOL.

Not sure if I like this “barfing out loud” thing on this planet. Makes a big mess but I am trying to learn the customs here.

Meep

By: A direct picture of a planet orbiting an alien star confirmed! « Catstronomy

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:32:54 +0000

[...] some people don’t consider them real stars. So it’s not really a sun-like star. But a planet orbiting a sun-like star has already been observed by telescopes in space. Since this observation was made from a ground [...]

By: HUGE EXOPLANET NEWS ITEMS: PICTURES!!! | Bad Astronomy | Dis « Men Into Space

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:29:25 +0000

[...] Astronomy | This is incredible: For the first time, ever, astronomers have captured an optical image of a planet orbiting a star like our own. And that’s not all….! Read ahead [...]

By: Thomas Oliphant

Thomas Oliphant — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:11:07 +0000

Holy Exoplanet, Batman!!!

By: 2001: Bill and Ted’s Bogus Odyssey « Geekshovel

2001: Bill and Ted’s Bogus Odyssey « Geekshovel — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:50:25 +0000

[...] • Awesome! I was hoping there would be more planets out there we could ruin. [...]

By: Rotary

Rotary — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:15:09 +0000

Look at http://www.sunorbit.net how it started all now only 15 years back….

By: More exoplanet direct imaging « Micro Black Holes

More exoplanet direct imaging « Micro Black Holes — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:39:05 +0000

[...] star some 51 light years away. This discovery comes on the heels of a last years announcements of a double star system and stars around the sun-like star Formalhaut. This new stellar family, GL 578 b, was imaged using [...]

By: The Ghost of November Past « The Outer Hoard

The Ghost of November Past « The Outer Hoard — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:04:51 +0000

[...] optical image of an exoplanet orbiting [...]

By: me

me — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:01:17 +0000

i am stoked! i can’t wait to find other life out there…this is just the beginning!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:19:57 +0000

All these planetary distances are quoted in billions of km/miles, or is should it be millions of km/miles?
e.g. The planet is ~0.1 AU from Fomalhaut, and not > 100 AU?
Both are plausible, but most exoplanets so far are discovered in tight orbits, not twice the distance of our Kuiper Belt and then some.

By: sonny

sonny — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:13:04 +0000

how come they can get a good picture of a diffrent galaxy but they can’t get a decent picture of a planet in a diffrent solar system.

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:36:06 +0000

that is cool i think i will set my careere into finding exoplanets thank you discover

By: KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) » Blog Archive » First planets seen with visible light!

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:28:33 +0000

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By: Linkapalooza! | kt literary

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By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:06:54 +0000

This is great lol i mean yea it’s old news now but still great and i hope u discover more planets using this methiod i bet by the time im out of high school u’ll do reat

By: verywide.net » Blog Archive » Time and Distance

verywide.net » Blog Archive » Time and Distance — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:52:40 +0000

[...] knowledge needed to identify planets like ours, but we have advanced to the point where we can get actual images of some of these extrasolar planets, so it’s likely only a matter of time, effort, and [...]

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:31:50 +0000

if evolution is so powerful, why did the human brain end up so flaued

By: Astronomy Cast - The on-going search for exoplanets

Astronomy Cast - The on-going search for exoplanets — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:54:09 +0000

[...] most exciting technique, though, is certainly direct imaging of exoplanets. Christian Marois, presenting work from a large collaboration, discussed this technique and [...]

By: Asimov fan

Asimov fan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:12:15 +0000

* NOTE TO THE MODERATORS * – Since the first version of this post / reply is “awaiting moderation” any chance you could just skip that first version and include this corrected one instead please? Oh, with this top header deleted too if that’s possible. I’ve just corrected a couple of typos. That’d be very much appreciated! – Asimov fan.
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Brewster Said : (November 13th, 2008 at 2:40 pm)

“I certainly recall that Ursula Le Guin predicted a Fomalhaut II planet – I wonder if the astronomers who have read “Rocannon’s World” will call it Rokanan?”

Nice suggestion.

Another couple of ideas – Fomalhaut (perhaps the most frequently mispelt star name ever!) also went by the old Arabic title ‘Al Difidi al Awwal’ or the “first frog” by Arab astronomers before it got its current proper name Fomalhaut from the Arabic ‘Fum al hut’ meaning Fishes mouth.

Fomalhaut was associated with Dagon – usually described as a sea-god or possibly a grain god according one Asimov essay* – of the Canaanites, Syrians and Philistines whose temple was based at Gaza.

For the Biblically minded that was the temple destroyed by Sampson (Book of Judges, Chapter 16) when he was “eyeless in Gaza” to allude to an old poem …

Anyhow, trivia aside might I suggest the alternative names for the planet of Dagon after the Fomalhaut linked ancient god and at least part of the old ‘Difidi al Awwal’ -this may work best if two planets are found – one getting named ‘Difidi’ and the other ‘Awwal.’

Or perhaps given the froggy theme – we could call it ‘Kermit’?

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* Noted on page 1485 ‘Burnham’s Celestial Handbook – Volume III : Pavo through Vulpecula’, Robert Burnham Jr, Dover Publications, 1978 :

“Incidentally, the identification of Dagon as a sea god or fish-god has been questioned by Isaac Asimov; he suggests that the name does not derive from the Semitic ‘dag’ (fish) but from ‘dagan’ or “grain.” If so, Dagon may have been an agricultural diety rather than a sea god.”

- Brackets and italics original.

Alas, the chances of doing further archaeology to investigate this in Gaza which currently under merciless Israeli bombardment seem highly remote.

By: Late Chick

Late Chick — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:44:22 +0000

Code asked : (on Nov lucky 13th, 2008 at 2:54 pm)

“This is all well and good but when will we be able to see hot women on these exoplanets?!?”

When the hot women head out there to visit that’s when mate!

By: Slacker Astronomy » Images of other worlds

Slacker Astronomy » Images of other worlds — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:00:45 +0000

[...] really is big news and Phil sums it up beautifully. We have unequivocally imaged other planets. Most of us were born in a world where we knew of no [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:55:43 +0000

Wormholes – Gravitational Lensing – Amplified Magnetic Propulsion- We As a Civilization will
develop a starship someday if we do not blow ourselves up over our petty differences.

There are millions Perhaps Billions of inhabited worlds in the universe we are one.

By: My Take on Top Five Space Stories of 2008 from Space.com | Mike Brotherton: SF Writer

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:31:40 +0000

[...] particularly imaging several alien solar systems, which I wrote about here and here. I liked Bad Astronomy’s write-up, too. This is just the beginning. We’re going to have catalogs of alien solar systems [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:13:11 +0000

Imagine at some time in the future, we actually manage to land on a planet outside of our solar system, one that we found in these times!
What kind of society should we create?
It is strange that everything we have on THIS planet is FREE, the materials that make the houses we build, the food we eat, the gems we decorate ourselves with, the clothes we wear. Everything.
Except that is, until man puts a cost on it. The only thing that costs is the effort that we put into bringing a raw substance to the finished product and greed!
We should all work for the good of mankind, for our futures, for our children to be born into a world without poverty, financial inequality, greed and corruption. After all, what do we HOPE for when we look to the stars.
IMPOSSIBLE! you say?
I think maybe the future inhabitants of such a planet would look back at you with disdain and pity. Or maybe corruption stretches farther than we can imagine.
I digress. Phenomenal, astounding, incredible piece of history!!!!!!
One small step, three tiny dots. How our lives may change?
Anyone heard of DNA?