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The little more of the Universe has been pried out of the shadows.Two groups of Astronomers have take the first pictures of what are the most likely planets going around other stars.
The achievements,the result of years of effort of improved observational techniques and better data analysis,presages more such discoveries,the experts said, and will open the door to new investigations and discoveries of what planets are and how they came to be formed."It's the tip of iceberg,"christian marois of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics."Now that we know they are there,there is going to be an explosion."
Mr.Marois is the leader of a team that recorded three planets circling a Star know as HR8799 that is 130 light years away in the constellation Pegasus.The other team,led by Paul Kala's of the University of California,Berkeley,Found a planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut,25 light years from Earth,in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
In Scratchy telescope pictures released on Thursday in science express,the online version of the journal science,the planet appears as fuzzy dots that moves slightly around their star from exposure to exposure.Astronomer who have seen the images agree this look like the real thing."I think Kepler himself recognize these as planets orbiting a star following his laws of Orbital motions,"Mark S.Marley of the Ames research center in mountain view said.
More than 300 so called extra solar planets have been found circling distant stars,making their discovery the hottest and fastest growing field in Astronomy.But the observations have been made mostly indirectly,by dips in star light as planet cross in front of their home star or by wobbles they induce.
Astronomers being astronomers, they want to actually see this worlds, but a few reason claims of direct observations have been clouded by debates about whether the bodies were really planets or failed stars."Every extrasolar planets detected so far has been a wobble on a graph,"said Bruce Macintosh, astrophysicist from the Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
the new planetary systems are anchored by young bright stars more massive than our own sun and swaddled in large discs of dust,the raw materials of worlds.The three planets orbiting HR 8799 are roughly10,nine and six times the mass of Jupiter,orbit their star in periods of 450,180 and 100 years respectively,all counterclockwise.
Fomalhaut is about three times as massive as Jupiter,according to Mr.Kala's calculations,and is on the inner edge of a huge band of dust,taking roughly 872 years to complete a revolution of its star.