First-ever photo of planet outside our solar system?

"mercury" writes:
http://www.world-science.net/otherne..._planetfrm.htm

it would be interesting to look at this, no doubt, but that url gives
nothing but "Site Temporarily Disabled"

[probably a spam of some sort, to judge by the weird set of
newsgroups -- which i've trimmed -- but...]
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Robin (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) Fairbairns, Cambridge

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"mercury" writes:
http://www.world-science.net/otherne..._planetfrm.htm

it would be interesting to look at this, no doubt, but that url gives
nothing but "Site Temporarily Disabled"

[probably a spam of some sort, to judge by the weird set of
newsgroups -- which i've trimmed -- but...]

BBC reports it too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3644410.stm

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Alan LeHun

Alan LeHun writes:
says...
"mercury" writes:
http://www.world-science.net/otherne..._planetfrm.htm

it would be interesting to look at this, no doubt, but that url gives
nothing but "Site Temporarily Disabled"

[probably a spam of some sort, to judge by the weird set of
newsgroups -- which i've trimmed -- but...]

BBC reports it too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3644410.stm

good to see that (for once) my cynicism is misplaced. thanks for the
link.
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Robin (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) Fairbairns, Cambridge

"Robin Fairbairns" wrote in message
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"mercury" writes:
http://www.world-science.net/otherne..._planetfrm.htm

it would be interesting to look at this, no doubt, but that url gives
nothing but "Site Temporarily Disabled"

[probably a spam of some sort, to judge by the weird set of
newsgroups -- which i've trimmed -- but...]
--
Robin (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) Fairbairns, Cambridge

World-science.net have a problem with controlling file sizes - the files
needed to show that page come to something like 750Kb
It includes several hidden images, jpegs saved as html pages and all
manner of rubbish.

It is getting better though - the last time I visited it (they had a
snippet about the new HST Catseye Nebula image), they had saved the main
image as a 500+ Kb bmp; at least the image accompanying this page is a
relatively modest 56kb Jpeg.

It's possible the reason it was unavailable earlier is because it
breached the host service download limits.