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3D Rendering of Orbiting Extrasolar Planets

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Uploaded by on Nov 13, 2008

For the first time, astronomers have taken a visual image of a multiple-planet solar system beyond our own.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/first-direct-im.html

Video courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF

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  • thats awesome!...

    now if only we would explore the ocean floor now...

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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

  • If only we could see them yet.

  • If only he knew that there are billions of stars without planets.

  • "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 ?

  • (hatred of irony)...

    GAAH!

  • There could be life at other solar system, could it? lols. Maybe they're looking at us right now xD

  • meh i believe its empty. or is it? maybe theres a sea monster there. who knows.

  • 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.

  • umm... im not to smart but... what does this mean?

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