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Old 24-November-2008, 01:14 PM
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It looks like the flood gates are open. A probable giant planet imaged in the Beta Pictoris disk -- this one's ~8MJ and only 8AU from Beta Pictoris. Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Planetary Mass Candidate Companion to a Young Solar Analog claims to have imaged a ~8MJ object 330AU from 1RXS J160929.1-210524 (that'll never fly in the media). Meanwhile Ralph Neuhaeuser keeps studying the object near GQ Lup he imaged in 2005. Unfortunately the best estimate for its mass is now 30MJ, so his earlier claim of having imaged an exoplanet probably wont stand up.
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