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3D Rendering of Orbiting Extrasolar Planets

For the first time, astronomers have taken a visual image of a multiple-planet solar system beyond our own. http://blog.wired.com/wired... Video courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/ NSF  
 
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CandlesOfUnity (1 year ago) Show Hide
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"Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets..." ~ Baha'u'llah (1817-1892), Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 162

A proof that holy Prophets are always true ?
berveiga (1 year ago) Show Hide
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If only he knew that there are billions of stars without planets.
CandlesOfUnity (1 year ago) Show Hide
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If only we could see them yet.
CandlesOfUnity (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Since evidence strongly suggests that stars like our own Sun frequently, if not invariably, are accompanied by planets.

Carl Sagan, So Many Suns, So Many Worlds, Parade, 9 June 1996, p. 10
zonex1a (1 year ago) Show Hide
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but what dose it all mean?
XaBc123cBaX (1 year ago) Show Hide
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There could be life at other solar system, could it? lols. Maybe they're looking at us right now xD
zakkmiester (1 year ago) Show Hide
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More or less, it means that now we can see solar systems other than our own. Previously, the smallest extra-solar objects we could see were the size of saturn.
MegaManNetwork (1 year ago) Show Hide
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thats awesome!...

now if only we would explore the ocean floor now...
cheekyass123 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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meh i believe its empty. or is it? maybe theres a sea monster there. who knows.
zakkmiester (1 year ago) Show Hide
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(hatred of irony)...
GAAH!

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