Yes yes yes yes yes - go Fomalhaut

[threemonkeys]

Please let this be real. The first direct visual evidence of planets outside our own solar system. Inference is all very well, but this is the real thing.

ETA: But wait, there's more. This indicates that HR8799 may have *two* visible planets. Although in this case there isn't any time comparison to indicate orbital movement.

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[flinthart.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was just being annoyingly superior. Actually, I'm as excited as you - maybe moreso. Okay, it's a downer that the planetary system is only sixty million years old - means no time for life to have developed. But the three planets seen are all multi-Jupiter sized, and there's a forking great gap between the innermost of those, and the star. The astro-boyz are going crazy, laying odds that there will be rocky-type planets of a more reasonable mass between that innermost megajupe and the star itself.

Best of all, they're brainstorming on how to see them!

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm as excited as you - maybe moreso

I can easily believe people more excited than me - the guy at work who was pointing all this stuff out to me was just gibbering with delight.