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tigerfort ([personal profile] tigerfort) wrote2008-11-13 09:30 pm
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Today's real news: an article due to appear in this week's issue of Science will contain the first ever direct images of extra-solar planets.

[identity profile] rustica.livejournal.com 2008-11-13 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That is so cool :D

[identity profile] colinbj.livejournal.com 2008-11-14 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
And, incredibly, here are another three!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7725584.stm

Planets are just like buses really, you wait ages, then four come along at once.

I'm beginning to believe the Webb space telescope might really find us some new Earths, complete with spectra.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2008-11-14 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent!
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2008-11-14 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
Woah.