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Old 13-November-2008, 07:41 AM
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Exclamation Keck telescope *SEES* three-planet system!

Astronomers Capture First Images of Newly-Discovered Solar System

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The new solar system orbits the dusty young star named HR8799, which is 140 light years away and about 1.5 times the size of our sun. Three planets, roughly 10, 9 and 6 times the mass of Jupiter, orbit the star. The sizes of the planets decrease with distance from the parent star, much like the giant planets do in our system.

And there may be more planets out there that scientists just haven’t seen yet.
“Every extrasolar planet detected so far has been a wobble on a graph. These are the first pictures of an entire system,” said Bruce Macintosh, an astrophysicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and one of the key authors of a paper appearing in the Nov. 13 issue of Science Express. “We've been trying to image planets for eight years with no luck and now we have pictures of three planets at once.”
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