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Newborn planet pictured for first time
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Newborn planet pictured for first time
Newborn planet pictured for first time

Astronomers have captured this image of a planet that's still forming in the disk of gas and dust around its star.
Researchers have long been on the hunt for a baby planet, and this is the first confirmed discovery of its kind.
Young dwarf star PDS 70 is less than 10 million years old, and its planetary companion is thought to be between five and six million years old.
Known as PDS 70b, it appears to be several times the size of Jupiter and probably has a cloudy atmosphere.

Researchers led by a team at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Astronomy found that the planet orbits about as far from its star as Uranus does from the Sun.
Each journey around the dwarf star takes about 118 years.
Surface temperatures are thought to exceed 1,000C; far greater than those on any planet in our Solar System.
The star's light was blocked with a tool called a coronagraph, which allowed astronomers to see the much fainter planet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44661979
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RE: Newborn planet pictured for first time
No god involved.
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Here, either!
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(July 2, 2018 at 5:09 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Newborn planet pictured for first time

Astronomers have captured this image of a planet that's still forming in the disk of gas and dust around its star.
Researchers have long been on the hunt for a baby planet, and this is the first confirmed discovery of its kind.
Young dwarf star PDS 70 is less than 10 million years old, and its planetary companion is thought to be between five and six million years old.
Known as PDS 70b, it appears to be several times the size of Jupiter and probably has a cloudy atmosphere.

Researchers led by a team at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Astronomy found that the planet orbits about as far from its star as Uranus does from the Sun.
Each journey around the dwarf star takes about 118 years.
Surface temperatures are thought to exceed 1,000C; far greater than those on any planet in our Solar System.
The star's light was blocked with a tool called a coronagraph, which allowed astronomers to see the much fainter planet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44661979

Aww...looks just like his mum.

Boru
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RE: Newborn planet pictured for first time
And it's a cutey at 14,879,446,096,467 pounds, 7 ounces!
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But it's got a hell of a case of nappy rash.
Dying to live, living to die.
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and you're wiping it's first poo! hehe
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(July 2, 2018 at 8:53 pm)ignoramus Wrote: and you're wiping it's first poo! hehe

No. We call those people "nurses"...
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(July 2, 2018 at 8:56 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(July 2, 2018 at 8:53 pm)ignoramus Wrote: and you're wiping it's first poo! hehe

No. We call those people "nurses"...

We call those people wamen.
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(July 3, 2018 at 3:35 pm)SaStrike Wrote:
(July 2, 2018 at 8:56 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: No. We call those people "nurses"...

We call those people wamen.

Is that like a woman?

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