On 8/26/2010 8:17 AM, wrote:
Anybody any close up pics of the new solar system that is so much like
our own ?? It was on the news breifly yesterday but was quickly passed
over one the news show .
I think it is INCREDIBLE, this new find !! There is so much more to
see and learn out there !!!!


Don't get too excited, we have barely any photographs of any of hundreds
of exoplanets we've discovered so far. They are too faint to be seen
usually, they've only been detected through their gravitational
influence on their parent stars or through the flickering that they
cause when they pass in front of their parent stars while aligned to our
line of sight.

The pictures we have right now are "artist's impressions" meaning
they're completedly imaginary pictures.

Yousuf Khan

Here's an example of an artist's impression:

Earth-like planet found circling sun-like star | StarTribune.com
http://www.startribune.com/science/101613128.html