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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?
>>
>> ---> 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/
>> >
>> <http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/heic0821a.html>
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