Hubble directly observes planet orbiting Fomalhaut

Hubblecast 22. Date- 13 Nov 08. Source- http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/archive/topic/hubblecast// more info- http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0821.html

'The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an extrasolar planet, for the first time using direct visible-light imaging. The strange world is far-flung from its parent star, is surrounded by a colossal belt of gas and dust, and may even have rings more impressive than Saturn's.'

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• planet

[merlyn1900]

How old is the star? Could it be 1000,000,024 years? What would be the effect of it going Nova on us 25ly away?

[MeMrecious]

F a s c i n a t i n g  !

[Mal1234567]

4:28 "a spaceship would still take thousands of years to get there." Relativity, anyone? The time element depends on the acceleration capabilities of the spacecraft which then creates time-dilation on the ship itself. The astronauts would not perceive thousands of years passing.

[Mal1234567]

@Mal1234567 1:12 "Fomalhaut (FO-muh-low) is visible from the southern hemisphere." That is true, but it is also visible from the northern hemisphere in the southern part of the sky during the fall. So there's no reason to specify the southern hemisphere.

[Mal1234567]

@Mal1234567 Oh I get it, if they pronounce "cast" as "cawst," then that explains why they can't pronounce Fomalhaut.

[Mal1234567]

NASA can't even pronounce the name of this star correctly.

[KaOssis]

Ooh look, it's a retinal image of Madeleine McCann's right eye with her coloboma crack, and yet NASA can't tell us why the ring is cracked like a shard of glass, and turned upside down and back to front, that's why it's fake, and funny how paedophile's call missing children Fallen Angel's, when it mean's Foamalhout anyway... she wont be comming rushing round the mountain wearing pink pyjarmas to save the Vatican from being persecuted for thier organised paedophile ring!

[KaOssis]

ooh look, it's Madeleine mcCann's retinal image turned upside down! No wonder NASA's into calling innocent embryo's that have the X Chromosome for Turner's brain degrade disease from paedophile's Foamalhout's = Fallen Angel's, a name for Devil's produced in an embryo lab for Freemason NASA Scapegoats!

[mentalrectangle]

"This is the Hubblecaust."

They really need to stop committing genocide with the Hubble.

[ORACLE063]

If it is 3x the mass of jupiter wouldnt that make it a brown dwarf?