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Rsv1000R
11-14-2008, 01:09 PM
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-211

http://jpl.nasa.gov/images/hubble/20081113/exoplanet-browse.jpg

November 13, 2008

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. The team of astronomers who made the discovery includes researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, or the "Southern Fish."

fnfalman
11-14-2008, 01:29 PM
Is that the Cylon home world?:idk:

Papa_Complex
11-14-2008, 01:34 PM
Co-incidence? I think not!

Trip
11-14-2008, 01:35 PM
hhahahahhahahha papa

OneSickPsycho
11-15-2008, 05:42 PM
Co-incidence? I think not!

:lol: I was thinking the same shit...

Particle Man
11-15-2008, 10:27 PM
3 times jupiter's mass huh... no wonder we can see it, holy crap

DreaminR6
11-16-2008, 12:37 AM
Co-incidence? I think not!

Thats the first thing that popped into my mind.