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A European team claims to have obtained the first direct image of a planet beyond our own Solar System.
The “extrasolar planet” is said to orbit a star called GQ Lup - thought to be like a young version of our Sun.
Similar claims have been made in the past, but sceptical scientists believe the pictures merely show objects that share the same view in the sky.
The GQ Lup object is far more certain claims Ralph Neuhaeuser’s team in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
GQ Lup and its companion are located in a star-forming region about 400 light-years away.
The “planet” has been observed by the team since 1999.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4408187.stm
Sky-watchers from the South Pacific to the Americas will witness the first solar eclipse of 2005 on Friday when the moon blots out part of the sun.
It will be a partial eclipse rather than a total one, in which the Earth is cast into darkness. But it will be the last partial solar eclipse visible from the continental United States until May 20, 2012
cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/04/05/solar.eclipse.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
The “extrasolar planet” is said to orbit a star called GQ Lup - thought to be like a young version of our Sun.
Similar claims have been made in the past, but sceptical scientists believe the pictures merely show objects that share the same view in the sky.
The GQ Lup object is far more certain claims Ralph Neuhaeuser’s team in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
GQ Lup and its companion are located in a star-forming region about 400 light-years away.
The “planet” has been observed by the team since 1999.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4408187.stm
Sky-watchers from the South Pacific to the Americas will witness the first solar eclipse of 2005 on Friday when the moon blots out part of the sun.
It will be a partial eclipse rather than a total one, in which the Earth is cast into darkness. But it will be the last partial solar eclipse visible from the continental United States until May 20, 2012
cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/04/05/solar.eclipse.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
