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First picture of exo solar system! Absolutely freakin' incredible! :D
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Clinically Insane
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http://www.gemini.edu/node/11151
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...tems-pictures/
Awesome! Just... wow.  Actual pictures of a different solar system. So far just 2 gas giants about 7 to 10 times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting the massive star HR 8799 "only" 130 light years away. The planets appear to be pretty young because they're still radiating a lot of heat from constant contraction.
I can't wait until Herschel is in orbit and working! 2012 can't come soon enough. We'll actually be able to start imaging Earth sized planets. 
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you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Cape Cod, MA
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He is always watching, always searching for the preciousssssssss....
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Originally Posted by sek929 
He is always watching, always searching for the preciousssssssss....
Who? Ceiling cat?
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Ceiling cat is only watching you fap.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
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Ceiling cat is indifferent to the human's feeble discovery.
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"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
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Location: BFE
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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