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Default Giant new planet discovered - 05-01-2005, 10:06 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/04/3 ... index.html
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 10:39 AM
cool
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 11:14 AM
lets call it sphincterville
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 11:17 AM
omfg. How the hell can they see something that's 450 lightyears away from Earth? Crazy shit.
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 11:19 AM
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Refined images taken earlier this year by the Very Large Telescope in northern Chile
Did they actually name it 'The Very Large Telescope'? eek:
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 11:20 AM
bet its actually a blop of coffee on the lens of the telescope
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 12:40 PM
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bet its actually a blop of coffee on the lens of the telescope

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Default 05-01-2005, 12:42 PM
it's just amazing how big 'outer space' is. Something that many light years away is just rediculous. If we even ever figure out a way to travel at the speed of light without falling apart/messing around with time it would take an incredibly long time to get there anyway. dayum....
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 12:48 PM
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it's just amazing how big 'outer space' is. Something that many light years away is just rediculous. If we even ever figure out a way to travel at the speed of light without falling apart/messing around with time it would take an incredibly long time to get there anyway. dayum....
Space is one cold mother fucker.
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 12:50 PM
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Refined images taken earlier this year by the Very Large Telescope in northern Chile
Did they actually name it 'The Very Large Telescope'? eek:
It's called VLT because it is actually 4 telescoped hooked up together.

There is also a VLA (Very Large Array) in New Mexico:
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/vlbi/images/telbig/vla.gif

On the topic of the article, its neato to see. Too bad its freezing there, and the planet is absolutley enormous.

BTW 450 light years away is so insignificant it's pretty much our own back yard. It sounds far, but when compared with the rest of the galaxy, it's a joke. And it's because the planet is so huge that we were able to see it.
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 12:54 PM
finally, they found my left testicle back

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Default 05-01-2005, 01:22 PM
Awesome. I still prefer Earth.
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 01:28 PM
thats cool, Its mine.
  
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Default 05-01-2005, 01:56 PM
lets call it death star

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Default 05-01-2005, 02:00 PM
earth is dying because of the non-earth lovers. oOo:
  
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