Hubble Space Telescope captures images of alien solar system

Posted by on November 13th, 2008 in space, where's my alien dancing girls

From New Scientist

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A ring of dust surrounds the star Fomalhaut. Images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004 and 2006 show that a white dot just inside the dust ring moved in the intervening two years researchers believe the dot is a planet that weighs no more than 3 Jupiter masses and lies about three times as far from its star as Pluto does from the Sun (Courtesy of Paul Kalas/UC Berkeley)

So very awesome! Dear NASA, ESA et al – can we please send out some robot probes to check this out?! Oh yeah, I keep forgetting, India’s probably more likely. It’s all good, let’s get out there!

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One Response to “Hubble Space Telescope captures images of alien solar system”

  1. yesyesyesyesyesyes!