Hubble Space Telescope Directly Observes Exoplanet

Posted by admin on December 24th, 2009 and filed under hubble | 12 Comments »

Hubblecast 22: Hubble Space Telescope Directly Observes Exoplanet Orbiting Fomalhaut.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an extrasolar planet, for the first time using direct visible-light imaging. The strange world is far-flung from its parent star, is surrounded by a colossal belt of gas and dust, and may even have rings more impressive than Saturn’s.


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Credit:
- ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
- Visual design & Editing: Martin Kornmesser
- Animations: Martin Kornmesser & Luis Calçada
- Web Hosting: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ)
- Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen & Raquel Yumi Shida
- Written by: Lee Pullen & Lars Lindberg Christensen
- Host: Dr. J
- Narration: Bob Fosbury
- Cinematography: Peter Rixner
- Music: movetwo
- Footage and photos: A. Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey 2, NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley). Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Directed by: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J’s real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy.

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Duration : 0:5:2


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12 Responses

  1. GlobalResistanceEire Says:

    2:45 is an actual …
    2:45 is an actual image, not a computer generated image.

  2. pashaahsj Says:

    @serialkiller2476 i …
    @serialkiller2476 i know… -_-

  3. serialkiller2476 Says:

    lol fake
    lol fake

  4. pashaahsj Says:

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  5. pashaahsj Says:

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  6. serialkiller2476 Says:

    lol
    lol

  7. pashaahsj Says:

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    @serialkiller2476 , go EAT SHIT

  8. RibsLewis36 Says:

    more computer images
    more computer images

  9. RibsLewis36 Says:

    more computer …
    more computer images lame-meat!

  10. serialkiller2476 Says:

    fake
    fake

  11. bonncaruso Says:

    Super!!
    Super!!

  12. smokkapi Says:

    No I think there is …
    No I think there is more to do.
    And I’m waiting in excitement.
    Some people are impatient and draw conclusions meanwhile. It’s been 2-300 years of archeology so its understandable though.
    But for me, I need hard evidence. Guess we’ll have to wait 2-300 years more maybe.
    We’ll see what evidence shows up in our lifetime. It will probably be a blast:P

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