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This is huge, amazing, wowza! Today - November 13, 2008 - the Hubble Space Telescope took the first photograph of a planet orbiting another sun. The planet has a name - Fomalhaut b, because it orbits Fomalhaut - which I think should be much more interesting, considering the historic nature of its discovery. Fomalhaut b, which I'll call Super-Wowza-Planet FB! is only 25 light-years away, so if intelligent life inhabits this place, they've been listening to our radio broadcasts for generations.
Without further ado, here's the photo:
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Just wow. If it weren't so late, I'd write more. Wow.
(I've been away from teh intarwebs for most of the day due to creating this "How to Make a Website" tutorial for my students [1/3 of it is only for KU people], taking a visiting scholar out to dinner for KU, attending his talk, and discussing his theories and more afterward over beer. A great day. But it meant that I only now saw the news.)
Did I mention wow? WOW!
Chris
Without further ado, here's the photo:
Click the image to see the story.
Just wow. If it weren't so late, I'd write more. Wow.
(I've been away from teh intarwebs for most of the day due to creating this "How to Make a Website" tutorial for my students [1/3 of it is only for KU people], taking a visiting scholar out to dinner for KU, attending his talk, and discussing his theories and more afterward over beer. A great day. But it meant that I only now saw the news.)
Did I mention wow? WOW!
Chris
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Wow!
On top of the wow factor for content, that's a beautiful photograph. Does whomever own the rights to these photographs (if anyone) sell prints of the photos?
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It's a NASA image, and I'm pretty sure they're available free to the public. They also sell the gorgeous Hubble shots via posters and calendars.
Also, here are much bigger versions of the photo. Might print nicely on, say, a high-res color laser....
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That's one of the best feelings in the world.
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It feels like we're living in the future, or we've pulled aside the curtains of the world that we didn't even know were there, shrouding reality and limiting our sense of the universe.
There is no greater pleasure in life than those moments of discovery, of grasping the what-ness of things. Yeah.
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K.
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That sounds like it should be a Japanese cartoon show or game. "Gotta see them all!"
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