Mega-planet's ingredients point to solar system like ours - Polidicks

[t]http://i.space.com/images/i/000/027/074/original/hr-8799-artists-rendering.jpg?1363282761[/t] [QUOTE]A planet several times more massive than Jupiter, orbiting a star 130 light years away, is part of a solar system that is likely very similar to our own, a new study suggests. Using ground-based telescopes, the study by Canadian and U.S. researchers has managed to reveal in detail what the giant planet known as HR 8799c is made of. Based on the ratio of carbon to oxygen in the planet's atmosphere, the researchers think it formed the way our solar system was thought to have formed — and that may indicate there are interesting undiscovered planets in its solar system. "Not only are we really excited that we have this tantalizing evidence of the way another planetary system may have formed, but we can even speculate that maybe there could be planets more like the Earth — terrestrial planets closer in to the star," said University of Toronto astrophysicist Quinn Konopacky, lead author of the study, at a news conference organized this week by the journal Science. The journal published the results of the study online on Thursday. From powerful telescopes on Earth, such as the Keck II telescope in Hawaii that was used in this study, astronomers can see four giant planets, each three to seven times more massive than Jupiter, orbiting the star HR 8799. Jupiter is the largest planet in our own solar system. HR 8799c is the second-furthest out of the four planets in its system, located about far away from its star as Pluto is from the sun. But because it is a very young planet, it is very hot — roughly 600 C to 1000 C on its surface. Object that are very hot appear bright when seen with a telescope that measures infrared light.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/14/science-planet-atmosphere-hr8799.html"]Source[/URL]

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Fucking Christ I thought this was a full page.

On topic, fuck yes please let there be more earth-like planets. We must make carl proud.

A mega-planet? How "Mega" is that?

It's astounding that they can tell the Oxygen:Carbon ratio of a planet light years away. Simply astounding.

[QUOTE=J!NX;39938717]A mega-planet? How "Mega" is that?[/QUOTE] [quote]A planet several times more massive than Jupiter[/quote] [I]Bigger than Jupiter.[/I]

[QUOTE=Forumaster;39940666][I]Bigger than Jupiter.[/I][/QUOTE] [I]holy fuck[/I] [I]Imagine the gravity.[/I]

[QUOTE=J!NX;39940675][I]holy fuck[/I] [I]Imagine the gravity.[/I][/QUOTE] It's probably pretty heavy.