sciencenews.org - 9/17/2008
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After years of searching, astronomers may finally have recorded the first image of a planet orbiting a sunlike star beyond the solar system. The body, about eight times Jupiter’s mass, lies exceptionally far from its presumed parent star — roughly 11 times Neptune ’s average distance from the ...
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First image of a Planet orbiting a Sun-like star
Newlaunches.com —
... turn out to be a planet — and it's not certain it is — then theories of planet formation may have to be adjusted. The new planet was discovered by a Toronto team using a special optics system on the Gemini North telescope atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea. The team scoured the vicinity of some 85 stars belonging to the Upper Scorpius association. Stars in this grouping lie 500 light-years from Earth and are only about 5 million years old. The sun, by comparison, is 4.56 billion years old. [ Sciencenews via ...
Historic first look at an alien world, 3106 trillion miles away
DVICE Atom Feed —
... in sync with the star, which will take two more years of observation to determine.
This could change everything for scientists, who thought planets could only be formed by dust and matter close to a star. Equally interesting is how this picture was taken of an object 3106 trillion miles away, using a an infrared adaptive optics system and the near-infrared imager on the Gemini North telescope atop Mona Kea in Hawaii.
Gemini Observatory, via Science News
First Historic Image of Planet 3106 Trillion Miles From Earth [Telescopes]
Gizmodo —
... from a distance of about 500 light years away. The image is believed to be the first ever of a planet in an alien solar system around a sun-like star. The discovery is made even more significant because the "planet" lies a tremendous distance away from its parent star—challenging currently accepted theories about star and planet formation. It will take up to 2 years of research to determine whether or not this object is, in fact, tied to the star by gravity. [Gemini via ScienceNews via DVICE]
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