This first planet outside of our solar system (right) was found orbiting a brown dwarf, dubbed 2M1207 (center).Image credit: ESO
Posted on 09/08/2024 5:08:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The image is a composite. 2M1207b orbits the brown dwarf from almost twice as far as Neptune does from the sun, but in the image, the planet appears positioned close to its star. The data used to capture it comes from three near-infrared exposures in different wavebands. It's a technique used to produce images for public consumption, but more importantly, to locate exoplanets around stars. That's because infrared data lessens the huge brightness difference between a star and a planet, making the latter easier to find.
It was produced using the 27-foot (8.2 meters) Yepun telescope — part of the Very Large Telescope — at the ESO's Paranal Observatory, located 8,645 feet (2,635 m) above sea level in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
It may have been the first, but 2M1207b was not the last world to be directly imaged. According to Las Cumbres Observatory, over 200 planets have since been discovered using direct imaging. A total of more than 5,600 alien worlds have been confirmed through various methods.
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This first planet outside of our solar system (right) was found orbiting a brown dwarf, dubbed 2M1207 (center).Image credit: ESO
“A total of more than 5,600 alien worlds have been confirmed through various methods...”
...and all of them are illegally crossing our non-existent southern border!
So, when are we colonizing it? How soon before they put a Dollar General on it? ;)
All very cool, of course. :)
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:^) And Walmart, Walgreen’s, Dollar Tree...
By the time our hibernation ships arrive there, the FTL vessels will have been built and colonized the whole place.
[quiet reference to Theo Sturgeon’s “The Stars Are the Styx”]
I wonder if there are libtards on 2M1207b.
doesn’t look like a planet to me
By the time our hibernation ships arrive there they won’t have any fuel left to return.
Theory play
If we are the aliens from another planet they didn’t tell us about it.
LOL
Maybe all government are the same after all
:^) That’s another Theodore Sturgeon short story...
Check
It’s in that same collected short stories paperback I got about 40 years ago, but 1) I have no idea where it is right now, 2) when I try to look it up it usually takes ages, and 3) the collection I have is titled “The Stars Are the Styx”, named for that other short story I mentioned. :^)
Goodreads has a page on it, gives the story names as “Tandy’s Story (1961)Rule of Three (1951)The Education of Drusilla Strange (1954)Granny Won’t Knit (1954)When You’re Smiling (1955)The Claustrophile (1956)The Other Man (1956)The Stars Are the Styx (1950)Occam’s Scalpel (1971)Dazed (1971)”
The story I remember (but not the title) had a unique word that I tried a search on Google books (that thing has changed) and now I’ve got a page number anyway (250), from near the end of the short story.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Stars_are_the_Styx/r0pbAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=indigenous
“The data used to capture it comes from three near-infrared exposures in different wavebands. It’s a technique used to produce images for public consumption, but more importantly, to locate exoplanets around stars. That’s because infrared data lessens the huge brightness difference between a star and a planet, making the latter easier to find.”
Well, that’s all well and good.
But next time add-in tweaking the focus knob a little, eh?
Sign me up; I could use a nice, long nap! :)
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