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Off Topic => Ten Forward => Topic started by: Nemesis on September 10, 2004, 09:41:39 pm
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In prior threads about planets being detected in other solar systems some here have questioned whether what was detected was in fact a planet. This time it was seen using a telescope not deduced from other effects.
Link to story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3644410.stm)
Astronomers working in Chile think they may have taken the first direct image of a planet circling another star. The star, called 2M1207, is 230 light-years away and is very much smaller and fainter than our own Sun.
The pictured companion is 100 times fainter still and tested the technical limits of the Yepun telescope.
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One word... "WOW!"
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One thing that I would like to see is for them to detect the planet using the techniques that allowed the deduction of the existence of the other planets. It would act as a validation of the non visual technques. This would make the position of the naysayers much weaker.
The naysayers do have the right to disagree. But to date I have not seen any of them bring forward an alternate explanation of the data. They only say that it doesn't prove the existance of the deduced planet. In disagreeing with a theory an alternate explanation for the data should be provided or a serious flaw in the data or deductive method used should be shown.
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Had to take a double take on this one...thought it said something about Data seducing Alien.
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In prior threads about planets being detected in other solar systems some here have questioned whether what was detected was in fact a planet. This time it was seen using a telescope not deduced from other effects.
Link to story ([url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3644410.stm[/url])
Astronomers working in Chile think[/i][/u] they may have taken the first direct image of a planet circling another star. The star, called 2M1207, is 230 light-years away and is very much smaller and fainter than our own Sun.
The pictured companion is 100 times fainter still and tested the technical limits of the Yepun telescope.
Emphasis mine.
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Had to take a double take on this one...thought it said something about Data seducing Alien.
*SNICKER* You aren't the only one Clark! LOL
Nice to know I have my own little world out there . . . :skeptic: :screwloose:
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Had to take a double take on this one...thought it said something about Data seducing Alien.
*SNICKER* You aren't the only one Clark! LOL
Nice to know I have my own little world out there . . . :skeptic: :screwloose:
Crap, you mean there's two of you? Katie, bar the door! :D