Re: Astronomers capture first images of new planets (CNN)
Marko Amnell
> http://www.ng2000.com/blog/2008/11/02/astronomy/
"Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
have taken the first visible-light snapshot of
a planet orbiting another star. The images show
the planet, named Fomalhaut b, as a tiny point
source of light orbiting the nearby, bright
southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years
away in the constellation Piscis Australis.
An immense debris disk about 21.5 billion miles
across surrounds the star. Fomalhaut b is
orbiting 1.8 billion miles inside the disk's
sharp inner edge."
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/39/
Here is a photograph of the planet Fomalhaut b:
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2008/39/images/a/formats/print.jpg
Here is an artist's impression of it:
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2008/39/images/d/formats/print.jpg
But... but... Are there Things that Man Should Not Know?
"You have before you the clear inference that
Cthuhga has his abode on Fomalhaut which
twenty-seven light years away, and that, if this chant
is thrice repeated when Fomalhaul has risen, Cthuha
will appear to somehow render this place no longer
habitable by man or outside society. How do you
suppose that could be accomplished?"
-- August Derleth, "The Dweller in Darkness" (1944)
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthugha Fomalhaut n'gha-ghaa naf'lthagn!
which roughly translates as:
"Gone but not forgotten, Cthugha sleeps/waits
at Fomalhaut, promising death to one and all!"