pics of 4 extrasolar planets...

[Mike70]

yep, you read that right. it was announced earlier today that images of 4 planets in two different systems have been obtained. the planet around fomalhaut (25 light years away) was actually discovered in an image taken by hubble in 2006. interesting to say the least.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/081113-hubble-exoplanet.html

[Publius]

Pretty neat, even though they only show up as tiny specks for now.

[AcesandEights]

Pretty neat, even though they only show up as tiny specks for now.

Yeah, I was a little underwhelmed when the page was dominated by artist's representations, but I don't know what I was expecting. Very cool, all the same, though.

[Bub666]

Very cool pics.

[AcesandEights]

Ah, Jesus...I should have noticed. Why didn't I remember?!

Avert thine eyes! Turn the lens away!

Fomalhaut is home to Cthugha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthugha)!

"You have before you the clear inference that
Cthuhga has his abode on Fomalhaut which
twenty-seven light years away, and that, if this chant
is thrice repeated when Fomalhaut has risen, Cthugha
will appear to somehow render this place no longer
habitable by man or outside society."

-- August Derleth, "The Dweller in Darkness" (1944)

http://planetologist.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/3026603168_a57722cf33_o1.jpg