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A rich starry sky fills the view from an ancient gas-giant planet in the core of the globular star cluster M4, as imagined in this artist's concept. The 13-billion-year-old planet orbits a helium white-dwarf star and the millisecond pulsar B1620-26, seen at lower left. The globular cluster is deficient in heavier elements for making planets, so the existence of such a world implies that planet formation may have been quite efficient in the early universe. REUTERS/NASA (news - web sites) |
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2 posted on
07/10/2003 6:57:40 PM PDT by
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To: NormsRevenge
Considering that it is 5,600 light years away; it probably doesn't exist any longer--relatively speaking, of course!
3 posted on
07/10/2003 7:04:05 PM PDT by
meandog
(Do unto others as you would have them do unto you...)
To: NormsRevenge
INTREP
To: NormsRevenge
I would think NASA would be spending this time and money on finding out the cause of the Columbia explosion.
To: NormsRevenge
In your lifetime this estimate will be revised at least once a year. Along with archeological finds that reorder our conception of the age of Man. (The Leakeys are good for one themselves each year.)
7 posted on
07/10/2003 7:26:40 PM PDT by
thegreatbeast
(Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
To: NormsRevenge
MOre linear age assumptions placemarker
8 posted on
07/10/2003 7:29:13 PM PDT by
goodseedhomeschool
(Evolution is the religion for men who want no accountability)
To: Physicist; RadioAstronomer; ThinkPlease; PatrickHenry
1st generation planet in M4 PING!
To: NormsRevenge
"It's only a model"
16 posted on
07/10/2003 8:35:18 PM PDT by
ALASKA
To: NormsRevenge
...a whirling pulsar and a white dwarf... They zoomed in on Bill Clinton standing with Robert B. Reich?
25 posted on
07/11/2003 3:47:48 AM PDT by
LRS
To: NormsRevenge
bump
29 posted on
07/11/2003 6:12:03 AM PDT by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: NormsRevenge
NASA: Planet Formed 13 Billion Years AgoYippee!
I had 12.5 billion in the over/under office pool!
To: NormsRevenge
5,600 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. A light-year is about 6 trillion miles, about the distance light travels in a year. 8.85771E-34
66 posted on
07/11/2003 9:22:01 AM PDT by
AndrewC
81 posted on
07/19/2006 8:44:14 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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84 posted on
07/19/2006 9:03:06 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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The View from Methuselah -- Deep within the M4 globular cluster, the oldest known planet orbits a millisecond pulsar and its white dwarf companion. Dubbed "Methuselah" by astronomers, this planet is probably only a billion years younger than the universe itself. Here we see this ancient world from one of its moons. To the top left of the planet are its pair of tiny elderly parent stars. To the far left, the center of the M4 cluster looms like a gigantic swarm of bees.
86 posted on
12/03/2006 12:33:40 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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