Comments on: First Image of Another Multi-Planet Solar System

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:28:51 +0000

You know, this is to cool! I think I want to explode! I've started this stuff at school. I was to curious! I've learned cloud names, about our Solar System, even about the Hubble Space Telescope. Even about moons. I could use this site!

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:21:18 +0000

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By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:20:55 +0000

Best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:20:30 +0000

This is cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:19:30 +0000

Wow! I've always wanted to see a Solar System.

By: Hi

Hi — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:36:27 +0000

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By: Hi

Hi — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:35:24 +0000

Great can't wait to see pluto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Hi

Hi — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:34:15 +0000

I don't understand any of this and don't emal me back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Karen Liptak

Karen Liptak — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:56:03 +0000

How come there's no "a" shown, just "b" and "c"?

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:03:00 +0000

Any chance of giving us RA Dec for these stars and other objects in these articles in future. I know we can't see the exoplanets or pulsars etc with back yard scopes, but just know where they are in the sky…as say, "there, that's where it is."

Martin

By: Clan Chattan

Clan Chattan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:57:29 +0000

Congratulations from Scotland 's clan chattan to Bruce Macintosh and all the others involved in this historic endeavour. Well done!

By: James Hartley Sr

James Hartley Sr — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:07:12 +0000

bobobo

your welcome, but by definition they're not planets, they're rocks

By: Pierre Poulin

Pierre Poulin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:35:00 +0000

What is crazy with that news?
The u.s. hegemony on information…
Nowhere on the site(coming from B.C.?) it is said that the lead author of this article published in the last Science (08-11-13) is Christian Marois, an astronomer from Montréal now working at the Astrophysic Herzberg Institute of Victoria, B.C. Canada.
To whom want to get info from the author
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol0/issue2008/images/data/1166585/DC2/1166585.mp3
Pierre Poulin, Montréal, Québec

By: silversurfur

silversurfur — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:11:20 +0000

I believe this is a very signifigant discovery because it shows a dust cloud around a star with planets, i believe that any star that can contain life as we know it must have this dust cloud or something very similar ,as it would protect against interstellar radiation and allows for microbial life to expand, the fact that this is a blue star is signifigant fact also, i do not know much about blue stars, but i understand that yellow stars give off a kind of light we need as Humans need to survive, any form of life on these planets would be vastly different to anything we can imagine, also these planets are very large, probably we could never visit them even if we could someday get there because we could not even stand up on 1 of these planets, however as our technology develops we may find more Worlds in this system more sympathetic to Human survival.

By: ed

ed — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:49:44 +0000

haha paint brush? absolutely…
you could at least have said photoshop haha…anyways I guess you are the one that uncovered the hoax of the century huh? haha

By: astrofiend

astrofiend — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:51:22 +0000

You're a moron Keen-Eye. This is now going to become among the most heavily studied regions in the whole sky, and any idiot would know that they would be found out in two seconds if they made it up. That comment wins you 'moronic comment of the year' award in my book.

By: Keen-Eye

Keen-Eye — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:03:20 +0000

urgh! this is obviously a hoax. i could have whipped these images up with MSpaint myself in less than an hour.

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:02:50 +0000

@Vino, I think for astronomers, obtaining high quality spectra (and other measurements e.g. apparent magnitude) could be more easily and precisely made with directly imaged planets as compared with transiting exoplanets. No doubt, these specific observations will still be difficult to make, but considerations involving stellar-planetary extrapolations and disentanglement of star-planet parameters would be greatly reduced by observing these bodies directly. Much about exoplanets can still be gleaned from planetary transit systems, but direct observations of new planetary bodies seems to me to be the way to go.

By: bobobo

bobobo — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:48:54 +0000

James Hartley thanks for you absolutely pointless comment

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:42:50 +0000

I thought that was a picture of an egg surrounded by sperm…

By: James Hartley Sr

James Hartley Sr — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:41:25 +0000

They are not planets by definition. One of the main characteristics of a planet is they orbit the SUN (Sol). They don't, therefore they are not planets. Yes I know this is picky, but if they're going to call Pluto something else based on these criteria then these orbiting masses are not planets or extrasolar anything. Extrasolar has Sol right in the word and is used in reference to the SUN, no another star.

By: Vino

Vino — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:45:44 +0000

Great work by the team!

But was a bit suprised by this statement which is misleading:
Most infer the existence of a planet through its
influence on the star that it orbits, but don't actually tell scientists anything about the planet other than its mass and orbit.

I guess it makes one to assume that we dont know anything other the mass and orbit while we have studied in detail the atmospheric profile of a few planets(eg. HD 209458b, HD 189733b)…

Just wanted to clarify this point..

By: Matt H

Matt H — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:26:49 +0000

I am so fortunate to be a young and aspiring astronomer in these days! Congrats on this monumental finding!!!!

By: Yan Luz

Yan Luz — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:26:48 +0000

Excellent!

Can't wait until we get to see Pluto!

By: Sofia

Sofia — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:53:04 +0000

What a great discovery !!!
Congratulations !