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Re: Alien Planets
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Eric Siegel <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:31:30 -0500
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If I read the hubble site's description correctly, this is a field of  
debris, and the planet was located by the distortion in the field of  
debris...

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Eric Siegel
esiegel at nyscience dot org




On Nov 14, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Chuck Howarth wrote:

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> OK, for all you smart astronomers out there - I saw the spectacular  
> Hubble image in the paper today.  According to the legend on the  
> photo, the parent star is the tiny white dot in the center of the  
> image, while the planet — well, you'd never be able to spot the  
> planet unless someone pointed it out.  The dominant feature of the  
> photo is an enormous red halo surrounding the star in all  
> directions.  What exactly is that?
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>> ---> Hubble has taken a photo of a planet about three times the  
>> mass of Jupiter, orbiting the bright southern star Fomalhaut.
>> <http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/39/text/>
>> <http://www.universetoday.com/2008/11/13/hubble-take-first-visible-light-image-of-extrasolar-planet/ 
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>> <http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/heic0821a.html>
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