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  • Elusive Planet Reshapes a Ring Around Neighboring Star (Hubble Discovers Sauron!!!)

    06/22/2005 12:53:05 PM PDT · by orionblamblam · 21 replies · 1,068+ views
    Hubblesite.org ^ | June 22, 2005
    NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most detailed visible-light image ever taken of a narrow, dusty ring around the nearby star Fomalhaut (HD 216956), offers the strongest evidence yet that an unruly and unseen planet may be gravitationally tugging on the ring. Hubble unequivocally shows that the center of the ring is a whopping 1.4 billion miles (15 astronomical units) away from the star. This is a distance equal to nearly halfway across our solar system. The most plausible explanation, astronomers said, is that an unseen planet moving in an elliptical orbit is reshaping the ring with its gravitational pull. The geometrically...