 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter’s mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis (the Southern Fish).
The planet may have formed at its location in a primordial circumstellar disk by gravitationally sweeping up remaining gas. Or, it may have migrated outward through a game of gravitational billiards where it exchanged momentum with smaller planetary bodies. It is commonly believed that the planets Uranus and Neptune migrated out to their present orbits after forming closer to the sun and then gravitationally interacted with smaller bodies.
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To me as a muslim I am not suprised. All is possible by the will of ALLAH.
No link the the photo? Actually, I did see it and wasn’t really sure what I was looking at without the explanation. Very cool. And I’m not surprised really. With FSM all things are possible. There must be enough pirates right now for him to reveal this to the world. 😀
I’m not surprised either. With the laws of nature, some things are possible, and this is one of them.
But, but, I’ve been assured by hundreds of creationists that there are no other planets! How can they all be so wrong, since creationism is good science?
Jeff (all) sorry about the picture link,it seems to be working now.
” All is possible by the will of ALLAH.”?????
I would like to know what the scientific evidence is for this statement?
Silly me, I forgot,there’s no way to measure the will of Allah or any other gods or designers. So the above statement is pure nonsense.
Was this an attempt at trolling or a shining example of how a religion with a reputation for being unforgivably conservative and fundamentalist can accept a scientific discovery for what it is instead of attacking it? If it is the latter, you’ll have to forgive the rudeness due to the continuous trolling we receive from religious extremists. If you attempting to troll…. ummmm… okay?
“Was this an attempt at trolling …”
When I first saw that comment, I thought it might be spam. Such a comment could have been made at almost any post of any blog, and it would seem to fit in — rather like those “Nice site!” spam messages, but with a religious twist to it. Also, the commenter’s name is a link to some other site. If there were no link, there would be no suspicion. Lots of us have links in our names, but we’re not spammers. With this guy, I donno. It would be helpful if he would drop in to clarify the situation. [Addendum: his name-link is now gone.]