Just read the news release about the Hubble Space Telescope directly observing a planet around Fomalhaut, which is another star! "Seeing is believing", or at least gives a big reality boost to all the indirect observations of extrasolar planets ( Read more... )

I was so happy today to learn that there exists a real solar system with at least 5 planets in it! The five planets discovered are all giants, but they are in roughly circular orbits like our own solar system, and giant worlds seem to have smaller worlds "attached" to them, at least the ones we know here in our neighborhood!

Although 41 light years ( Read more... )

I can't help it, when I read something in the news that shows how so very clever nature is, how so much in the universe is beyond our imaginations until we discover it, that I get kind of gooey-glazed eyed thinking of how little we humans really know. And how much awaits our discovery and cleverness (and granted, there is probably much that is ( Read more... )