Cute Exoplanet

Aaaawww, Cute Exo!



Bring Me Closer!



Still very extremely cute exoplanet there. And this is the female perspective and contribution to astronomy.



PlanetBye: Bringing cuteness from space to you. :-)

Exoplanet?

Exoplanet? In Blue



Credit: ESO

Beta pictoris seen in infrared

The hot sport of finding evidence of extrasolar planets results in amazing imagery. Not surprisingly I love this infrared image of Beta pictoris; it's bright blue! It is not completely proven that the element very close to this star actually is a planet, but evidence point in that direction. If it is in fact a planet, it will the planet orbiting closest to any star that we know of, including in our own planetary system.

Extrasolar

Snapshot of An Exoplanet



Fomalhaut, the Sun of the exoplanets




Fomalhaut b Planet, the one we'll agree actually is a planet...




An artists view of a three planet extra solar system.








All three extrasolar planet around Fomalhaut.



Holy Hubble! What Incredible Images!



I've posted on Fomalhaut extrasolar system before with its three rings. Now Hubble has managed to take pictures of three planets in this extra solar system. Well, at least there will be consensus on one planet. The two others will be subject to Pluto like discussion. And we know how filled with drama those exchanges of opinions are. Ha!

My favorite baby-faced science guy (Sorry, Dave you are young and charming both in form and content :-)) got a scoop with Exoplanet Sara. I recommend a read.

I'm so excited by these discoveries I have posted several times. Some of the images are beauties in themselves. Like the 'brown eye' version or the larger disco version by frog eyes. :-)

Hubbles Snapshot

Exoplanets



Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Click on image and see where you can find the Fomalhaut b planet, one of three planets around the star Fomalhaut. This is a snapshot taken by the fantastic Hubble telescope! :-)