Wow!
Thanks for the post!
Burgy
On 11/13/08, George Cooper <georgecooper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Today is the first day mankind has ever imaged an exoplanet. [The other
> 300+ exoplanet discoveries have been inferred from star wiggles and other
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> Yet, not only did they image one, but two separate star systems have been
> imaged by two separate groups.
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> HR8799 (140 lyrs) from Keck with 3 exoplanets:
> http://www.keckobservatory.org/article.php?id=231
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> Fomalhaut system ( 25 lyrs) from Hubble with 1 exoplanet:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7725584.stm
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