Hubble spies lord of the stellar rings

[gothicmom]

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7564

[Enochian_Deity]

WOW!!! That is truly fascinating.

[paradox]

[Msterbeau]

WOW!!!  That is truly fascinating.

...and purty!!

[phee]

Sweet

[pomba gira]

Fascinating... Thank you for posting that! One of my classroom books has a diagram of the Hubble. I'm gonna print that & attach it to the book... should give the kiddies a much stronger sense of what something like that can really do.

[gothicmom]

I'm still not sure what I like more! The fact that there is another solar system out there, or that it looks like an eye??? hehehehe

[Mikielikesit]

wow that is fucking amazing and here is a view of another eye in the sky

[paradox]

i see you!!!!!!!!

[The_Dark]

There are many other solar systems out there. We have found over 100 extra solar planets to date. I'm not sure the exact number.

[gothicmom]

There are many other solar systems out there. We have found over 100 extra solar planets to date. I'm not sure the exact number.

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I love that!!!!

[Goth Brooks]

All shall bow to Sauron.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Wow Fomalhaut’s ring in visible light. There are many sweet pictures from hubble but that thing is not a composite of various non-visible light images like most of them are its just a time exposed visible light image, which means.... its way cool hehe.

Thanks for posting that, i havent been keeping up on my cosmology like i should be.

Here is another article with a slightly different spin:

http://www.innovations-report.com/print/pr...id=45737&ctyp=1

(Btw we are now up to 160 planets outside of our solar system and 18 "Multiple Planet Systems" ("solar" system - is meant to be used just for our planetary system , that being the planetary system around our sun... which is named "Sol" thus "Solar System") Once we start getting used to it, its expected we'll start calling other "solar systems" names like "Fomalhauts System (or ring if the planets are still in formation-gas form)" or "The Rigel System (or ring)" based on what star the planetary system is orbiting.

Been a long , fast road since my high school days when it was not know that there are any planets outside of our solar system. No earth-mars-venus type planets found yet though (mostly all gas giants, larger that jupiter). Kind of left me slack-jawed when they first started discovering them. Still does actually.