Oresai
11-14-2008, 11:51 AM
Scientists have spotted planets circling other stars with their own eyes for the first time. Alien Worlds Seen For First Time
The discovery has been hailed as a step on the road to finding other worlds that can support life - and perhaps even alien life itself.
Astronomers have pinpointed so-called exoplanets, or worlds orbiting suns other than our own, before.
But they have always had to rely on deductions made after measuring changes in gravity or light that give the exoplanets' locations away.
Now, the National Research Council's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, Canada, has spotted three objects near a star 128 light years away, according to the journal Science.
Whole article found here....
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081114/twl-alien-worlds-seen-for-first-time-3fd0ae9.html
The discovery has been hailed as a step on the road to finding other worlds that can support life - and perhaps even alien life itself.
Astronomers have pinpointed so-called exoplanets, or worlds orbiting suns other than our own, before.
But they have always had to rely on deductions made after measuring changes in gravity or light that give the exoplanets' locations away.
Now, the National Research Council's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, Canada, has spotted three objects near a star 128 light years away, according to the journal Science.
Whole article found here....
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081114/twl-alien-worlds-seen-for-first-time-3fd0ae9.html