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  • Astronomers photograph exo-planet!

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    Wow! Very big planet and very little, dim star. Still impressive though!

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    wicked! Though the star is rather puny, it seems.
    urgh.NSFW

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    • #3
      I guess I'm going to have to click to find out.

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      • #4
        How is the planet visible? I presume it must be an emitter of radiation, because I don't see a brown dwarf at twice the distance of Neptune giving it much of a reflecton.
        One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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        • #5
          If it's an emitter of radiation, it's not really a planet.
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          • #6
            The 'colour' of the brown dwarf might be a clue

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            • #7
              explainify.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Az
                If it's an emitter of radiation, it's not really a planet.
                Quaoar now! In recent years 'planet' has come to mean many things.
                One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                • #9

                  Quaoar now! In recent years 'planet' has come to mean many things.


                  this takes me to a different thread. ... explainify, you as well.
                  urgh.NSFW

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                  • #10
                    I just wanted to open the can of worms. What is a planet?
                    One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                    • #11
                      my definition
                      A rock larger than some arbitrary size X with a nearly perfect spherical shape that emits no visible light.
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                      • #12
                        Something bigger than Pluto and circling a star ?
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                        • #13
                          So Ned is a planet?
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                          • #14
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                            One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                            • #15
                              Then he must certainly be a gas planet.
                              With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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