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Old 11-14-2008, 01:09 PM   #1
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Default First picture of a planet around another star

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PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. The team of astronomers who made the discovery includes researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, or the "Southern Fish."
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Old 11-14-2008, 01:29 PM   #2
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Is that the Cylon home world?
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Old 11-14-2008, 01:34 PM   #3
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Co-incidence? I think not!
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Old 11-14-2008, 01:35 PM   #4
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hhahahahhahahha papa
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Old 11-15-2008, 05:42 PM   #5
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Co-incidence? I think not!
I was thinking the same shit...
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Old 11-15-2008, 10:27 PM   #6
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3 times jupiter's mass huh... no wonder we can see it, holy crap
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Old 11-16-2008, 12:37 AM   #7
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Co-incidence? I think not!
Thats the first thing that popped into my mind.
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