First photo of extra-solar planet around Sun-like star?, page 1
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Topic started on 15-9-2008 @ 05:00 PM by Intelearthling
I don't know if this has been posted but I was thrilled to read it.
Space.com


"This is the first time we have directly seen a planetary mass object in a likely orbit around a star like our sun," said David Lafrenière, an astronomer at the University of Toronto who led the team that discovered the star. "If we confirm that this object is indeed gravitationally tied to the star, it will be a major step forward."





If this turns out to be fact, then it's wonderful news. Just think, in another few years or so, Earth-sized, Earth-like planets may be discovered and with a spectrogragh reading of the atmospheres, it may be be the first concrete evidence that life does exist outside the Solar System (something that I've always believed).

Concrete evidence you say? For oxygen to exist in an atmosphere, you must have plants and for plants to exist you must have organisms that exhale carbon dioxide.
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