On 24 Nov 2008, at 22:33, bruce_horrocks wrote:

> aven't seen any mention of this elsewhere but perhaps I am just not
> looking in the right places. :-)

I think I Twittered it. Twitter is where the action is these days :-)

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>
> Anyway, link points to an article describing the first direct
> observation of extra-solar planets (as opposed to inference of their
> existence through gravitational effects, etc.)

It's a remarkable image. As Chris Lintott says:
<http://chrislintott.net/2008/11/13/wait-a-few-years/> we'll be able
to look again in a few years and seem them in new positions.


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> It's quite remarkable, to a non-expert like myslf, how the seemingly
> impossible task of finding and studying extra-solar planets has
> progressed so rapidly over the last decade or so.


Well yes. But where's my flying car!?

;-P

Ian
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