To: Physicist; RadioAstronomer; ThinkPlease; PatrickHenry
1st generation planet in M4 PING!
To: Aric2000; Right Wing Professor; Junior; balrog666; Condorman; Doctor Stochastic; BMCDA; jennyp; ...
ping
17 posted on
07/10/2003 8:39:42 PM PDT by
js1138
To: longshadow
Way cool! Thanks for the ping :-)
To: longshadow
From the article:
The old planet is located near the heart of a globular star cluster some 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.
Journalism triumphs again. A light-year is
about the distance light travels in a year. Yeah. More or less.
23 posted on
07/11/2003 3:17:58 AM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: longshadow
Wicked cool! This discovery is pretty interesting, isn't it?
Placemarker for long thread life!
31 posted on
07/11/2003 6:16:07 AM PDT by
ThinkPlease
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