THIS SYSTEM CAN BE VERY OLD, AND NOT YOUNG!
Interesting news ! Heartiest greetings to the Hubble team & NASA team.
But… the news has contradictions with known theories and it was a prediction 20 years ago from the Universal Matrix Theory. Are there wrong interpretations from Hubble’s collected data? Let’s see the following:
1) It is possible that the body is not a planet, anymore. It is brighter than the expected. It can be a very old planet going to be a pulsar;
2) The excess of dust around the star can be disposable material from an old, dying star, and not about a young star;
3) Maybe the star is not so different from the sun, about long life. The sun can reach 10 billions years. We have a lot of data from the sun. We have few data from that star. Who could authorize us to say there is star living only 1, 2 billion years? Everything is suggesting the star has the same time of life like any other star. Our models are suggesting the star is about 7 billions years old.
The Universal Matrix models ( http://theuniversalmatrix.com ) suggests that old stars produces dust while its combustible is finishing, like any other fire you see at Earth. When the star become old, its planets are old also, they begin to be brighter, till becoming a pulsar. The tiny edge at the dust can be the initial formation of a new black hole, as we can see at the models.
By the way, congratulations and thanks for the good job. We work with data like that to testing our models…

Anyway, while I am not quite as enthused as some of my fellow posters, I am still delighted and impressed by this discovery.
Great work by all parties!

This type of story would have been unthinkable in the 1960's. Just imagine how far we have come since those days.

This is an inspiration to our hopes that humankind will someday reach the stars.

Still though I would have loved to see or hear about this back in 2004, how do you keep this stuff to yourself. We should start socializing with high profile astronomers, get them drunk and get them tell us all about the new stuff there working on. Nancy would you be interested in this new task? …

Anyway, it is a great time to be alive guys, and to witness stuff like this

And announced the same day the European were announcing their discovery, what a coincidence!
It's always funny how European and American teams are trying to still each other's thunder whenever they learn an imminent discovery from the other side of the Atlantic.

This is as big as when William Herschel shooked the world with his discovery of a planet when no other planet had ever been discovered since the obvious ones.

In honor of Herschel, I have an idea for a name for one of the planets.

This picture is absolutely fantastic

@ fsm :

( and since this is my first post : thanks Universe Today ! you guys are the best )

I dont know why the author publish this in ApJ. Maybe because of lack of confidence and the need to get results published. but this is by far one of the discoveries of this century putting it up there with the discovery of microwave background radiation from the big bang etc.

good stuff