[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[stainlessbanner]

23 billion miles

Put that in MapQuest! That's far, far away

[Charles Henrickson]

Hereis a close-up of just the planet itself. I'll point to it:

> .

[NormsRevenge]

[xJones]

You'll know if it's a real planet if there's ReMax 'For Sale' signs all over it.

[Qwinn]

Wait a minute. Wasn't part of the main premise of Arthur C. Clarke's 2010 that Jupiter's mass isn't far shy of what it would take to make it ignite into a star? How the heck can this planet be five times the mass of Jupiter and not start fusing it's lighter elements under it's own extreme gravitational pressure? Or was Clarke taking extreme liberties with science for the sake of his story? I can see him do that in areas where the science would be less well-established, but taking liberties on something like this seems uncharacteristic of him.

Qwinn

[Woahhs]

They say the results bolster their claim, put forward last fall, that this image was the first of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system.

The way I read it last year, this was never in doubt. Hmmmmm. I wonder.

[fish hawk]

I'm no astronomer but I thought that any mass 5 times the size of Jupiter would combust and turn into a sun. Guess not.

[dc-zoo]

Red Speck Bump

[clyde asbury]

..orbits a kind of failed star known as a brown dwarf at a distance of at least five billion miles, twice as far as icy Neptune is from our own Sun.

Colder than the coldest freezing ice cold cold you can imagine.

Put it in a freezer and it would melt.

[KevinDavis]

[BradyLS]

Alright. How is gravitational pull exerted? How does that kind of attraction have an influence on another body billions of miles away?

[SunkenCiv]

from 2005.

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