Well over 200 planets around stars other than the Sun have been
detected, including several multi-planet systems.
I guess most of you know this site:
http://exoplanets.org/
Some interesting news there (and enough strange configurations for Full Thrust
Scenarios)
In latest developments:
It is now also possible to take pictures of such planets (if astronomers
are lucky):
http://www.gemini.edu/sunstarplanet
Though the planet, wirh a temperature of 1800 K, is not exactly a place to
send a "wish you were here" postcard from (well, maybe to dear enemy.
Greetings Karl Heinz
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ng through my mail archives, I found this still in my inbox.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:19 AM, K.H.Ranitzsch
<kh.ranitzsch@t-online.de>wrote:
> Well over 200 planets around stars other than the Sun have been
Just as an fyi, the Hubble has taken visible light images of a planet orbiting
another star:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/39/
Said planet is most probably no larger than 3x Jupiter, and orbits Fomalhaut
every 872 years. Like Karl's note above, not a garden spot, but...it *is* a
planet in another star system!
Mk
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t's not a planet. That's Cthugha!
"You have before you the clear inference that Cthuhga has his abode on
Fomalhaut which
twenty-seven light years away, and that, if this chant
is thrice repeated when Fomalhaul has risen, Cthuha will appear to somehow
render this place no longer habitable by man or outside society. How do you
suppose that could be accomplished?"
-- August Derleth, "The Dweller in Darkness" (1944)
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthugha Fomalhaut n'gha-ghaa naf'lthagn!
Surely a place to avoid on your explorations of the galaxy.