Photo of extra-solar planet

[JiNX-01]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ircling-distant-sun-outside-solar-system.html

Now if we could just find E.T. ...

 

[T J]

Now, it we could find something else other than a gas planet several times the size of Jupiter there would really be a story. Something approaching a "class M" planet. Small, rocky, water, something a bit more familiar. Maybe after they launch that telescope in 2015...

 

[Starbreaker]

Nibiru!!!!!

 

[Trekker4747]

It's from The Daily Mail, color me dubious.

 

[BolianAuthor]

That is absolutely beautiful... thanks for sharing!

And we have found a rocky planet... Gliese 581.

 

[Tiberius]

And let's not forget Gliese 876d.

 

[FordSVT]

It's from The Daily Mail, color me dubious.

You know, it would take you about the same amount of time you spent writing that to search and find this story all over the net. Don't be the lazy, knee-jerk critic just because you see the Daily Fail attached to it.

And it's just the fact that it's an optical photograph that's the story here, not that we've identified an extra-solar planet, we've found hundreds of them at this point as well as taken images of them through other means.

 

[Trekker4747]

It's from The Daily Mail, color me dubious.

You know, it would take you about the same amount of time you spent writing that to search and find this story all over the net. Don't be the lazy, knee-jerk critic just because you see the Daily Fail attached to it.

And it's just the fact that it's an optical photograph that's the story here, not that we've identified an extra-solar planet, we've found hundreds of them at this point as well as taken images of them through other means.

Or the OP could've linked to, you know, a credible source other than a tabloid newspaper.

 

[PurpleBuddha]

^ Why so hostile in a thread involving the picture of an extra solar planet?

 

[STR]

^Because they ran a story last week saying how this very same planet was trying to break up Brangelina and scoop up Mr. Pitt.

 

[STR]

WTF! Double post? How does that happen in the year 2010?

 

[RoJoHen]

WTF! Double post? How does that happen in the year 2010?

I think the internet is fighting back.

 

[StolenThunder]

It's from The Daily Mail, color me dubious.

You know, it would take you about the same amount of time you spent writing that to search and find this story all over the net. Don't be the lazy, knee-jerk critic just because you see the Daily Fail attached to it.

And it's just the fact that it's an optical photograph that's the story here, not that we've identified an extra-solar planet, we've found hundreds of them at this point as well as taken images of them through other means.

Or the OP could've linked to, you know, a credible source other than a tabloid newspaper.

Just to perhaps clear things up - the Mail is a newspaper that has substantial and obvious political bias, combined with a little sensationalism when it comes to health reporting. Mostly they just like to panic.

 

[PurpleBuddha]

^Because they ran a story last week saying how this very same planet was trying to break up Brangelina and scoop up Mr. Pitt.

I figured as much. It is hard to find a planet without a hidden agenda these days.

 

[scnj]

^Because they ran a story last week saying how this very same planet was trying to break up Brangelina and scoop up Mr. Pitt.

Might be the borderline exhaustion but I laughed a lot.

 

[Brent]

Is there any reason why they aren't looking for planets closer than 500 light years? Why not look closely at the nearest solar system to us, which is only 4 light years away. Certainly that would yield better pictures?

 

[T J]

I think it's too close to get a clear picture. Not quite sure how the hell that works but...

 

[Trekker4747]

I think it's too close to get a clear picture. Not quite sure how the hell that works but...

To put it simply the telescopes are "far sighted" they're not designed to see close-up objects. This is the reason why the Hubble, for example, couldn't look on the moon and show us a picture of The Sea of Tranquility and "prove" the moon landings really happened. So the telescopes may be too "far sighted" to make much of the Centauri system.

 

[Brent]

Well that's weird, but I guess makes sense. Perhaps they should put a telescope up there that CAN take pics of closer systems to us.

 

[PurpleBuddha]

I think it's too close to get a clear picture. Not quite sure how the hell that works but...

To put it simply the telescopes are "far sighted" they're not designed to see close-up objects. This is the reason why the Hubble, for example, couldn't look on the moon and show us a picture of The Sea of Tranquility and "prove" the moon landings really happened. So the telescopes may be too "far sighted" to make much of the Centauri system.

Not the lander, but hubble has taken very impressive photos of the moon itself.

http://www.nasa-intelligence.com/infocus/contributions/moon_hubble.jpg