Possible First Photo of Planet Around Sun-Like Star

September 16, 2008 – 12:39 pm

Astronomers have taken what may the first picture of a planet orbiting a star similar to the sun.

This distant world is giant (about eight times the mass of Jupiter) and lies far out from its star (about 330 times the Earth-Sun distance). But for all the planet’s strangeness, its star is quite like our own sun.

read more>>> link


No comments yet.

Post a Comment


Anti-spam measure: please retype the above text into the box provided.