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Blue Velvet
Apr 30, 2005, 03:33 PM
Scientists say they have photographed a planet outside the Solar System for the first time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4501323.stm


A little titchy one, mind. Only 5 x the size of Jupiter. :eek:


EGT
Apr 30, 2005, 03:45 PM
That's an amazing find. Are they still looking for a planet beyond Pluto?

I remember reading something about that a while ago ...
ham_man
Apr 30, 2005, 03:57 PM
That is awesome. Great detail at 200 light years away. Something like seeing this "." period on my screen from way across the room...:rolleyes:
dotdotdot
Apr 30, 2005, 04:15 PM
Will we be alive when we get to go to these planets?

I want to go to mars someday.
Blue Velvet
Apr 30, 2005, 04:18 PM
Will we be alive when we get to go to these planets?

I don't think so. 200 light years is a little bit further away than the Moon...

I can't help but think of 'Alien' whenever I see pictures like that, artists' impressions or not.
DeSnousa
Apr 30, 2005, 05:04 PM
Thats awsome how those telescopes can pick up and image like that. So much to discover so little time :eek:
XNine
Apr 30, 2005, 05:04 PM
Why in the hell can't they just name the damn planets and stars something else beisdes WHYE349280 or NKLJNDLJ3462knzNLJK?!?!?!?! Is it so hard to name these things? Call one of them Fred, and another one Janice, and so on, and so on.

When I talk to my friends and colleagues I don't want to say "Yeah, scientists just got a picture of a planet called 465ERT67FHG..." They'll all think I'm some sort of psycho.
comictimes
Apr 30, 2005, 06:15 PM
But follow-up images taken at the Very Large Telescope facility in Chile show the two objects are moving together.

Ahh... you gotta love the awesome names telescopes get.. :p
AliensAreFuzzy
Apr 30, 2005, 07:11 PM
Ahh... you gotta love the awesome names telescopes get.. :p
Sure the telescopes get cool names, but not the planets. How lame is that?
EGT
Apr 30, 2005, 08:26 PM
Why in the hell can't they just name the damn planets and stars something else beisdes WHYE349280 or NKLJNDLJ3462knzNLJK?!?!?!?! Is it so hard to name these things? Call one of them Fred, and another one Janice, and so on, and so on.

When I talk to my friends and colleagues I don't want to say "Yeah, scientists just got a picture of a planet called 465ERT67FHG..." They'll all think I'm some sort of psycho.

There is actually an official comity of astrologists that give planets their names. There has been some speculation about the renaming of "Planet X", Nibiru, which is the one supposedly beyond Pluto, but has a strange orbit around the sun, more elliptical that the norm - so for a long period of time, it's wayyyy out of view.

Anyway, Nibiru (if it exists), may be renamed because Nibiru isn't a Greek/Roman god like the other planets in our solar system.

Nibiru defiantly beats that "839239834y29" crap.
leftbanke7
Apr 30, 2005, 09:38 PM
There is actually an official comity of astrologists that give planets their names. There has been some speculation about the renaming of "Planet X", Nibiru, which is the one supposedly beyond Pluto, but has a strange orbit around the sun, more elliptical that the norm - so for a long period of time, it's wayyyy out of view.

Anyway, Nibiru (if it exists), may be renamed because Nibiru isn't a Greek/Roman god like the other planets in our solar system.

Nibiru defiantly beats that "839239834y29" crap.

Screw all of the Greek/Roman god crap. Lets see some Norse gods!!!!
Josh396
Apr 30, 2005, 10:26 PM
Screw all of the Greek/Roman god crap. Lets see some Norse gods!!!!
I agree. I would love to see a planet Odin or Thor.