Thursday, September 13, 2007

Planet Survived Red Giant Sun

There seems to be one neat astronomy story after another out there.
"At present, (the) discovery is the only planetary system known to have
survived its red-giant phase," Jonathan Fortney, a NASA researcher, wrote in a
commentary in Nature, where the international team published its findings on
Wednesday.


"This will shed light not only on our own solar system, in which
Mercury, Venus and perhaps Earth will eventually be engulfed by the red-giant
Sun but also the diverse array of planetary systems that are our galactic
neighbors."

Some one should win a Nobel Prize for discovering that gravity wobble thing that they use to discover all these weirdo planetary systems. It is really filling in our knowledge that we have of our neighbors in the Milky Way.

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