Photos of planet forming

[Pendulous]

http://news.yahoo.com/1st-photo-alie...153016924.html

They're able to observe how a planet forms, which is a great find. Though, I don't know if there would be a difference in how a gas planet forms over a solid one. Or if it's the same process.

Also, I find it amusing they actually named it the Very Large Telescope.

[endersblade]

That's actually really awesome, I hadn't seen that yet. Thanks for the link!

[Creotor]

Yea, that's pretty cool. The news, not the photos. The first one is an artist's impression and the second one is worse than extremely pixelated porn. Better off using my imagination.

[-Zait-]

The article is pretty cool.

[Sayl]

There was a similar find a couple years ago (link) but this new VLT/Hubble composite looks quite impressive. Love seeing this stuff.

Also, I find it amusing they actually named it the Very Large Telescope.

ESO had originally planned a successor called the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL), but that got canned in favor of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). Whatever they lack in creativity they more than make up for in aperture.

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Yea, that's pretty cool. The news, not the photos. The first one is an artist's impression and the second one is worse than extremely pixelated porn. Better off using my imagination.

Well, when you can capture better images of an object so small that's 335 LY away and bathed in the light of its parent star, do get back to us.

[Wikiy]

Yea, that's pretty cool. The news, not the photos. The first one is an artist's impression and the second one is worse than extremely pixelated porn. Better off using my imagination.

The photos aren't really there to appease us, they're there to let the scientists make whatever deductions they can off them. In a decade or two, when the European Extremely Large Telescope is built in Chile (which will cost a few billion euros), they wont use it to take graphically appeasing pictures, they'll use it to take fuzzy pictures of planets, perhaps not even pictures at all, off which they'll be able to deduce the makeup of the atmospheres of those planets.

So all in all, the pictures aren't as cool as much as what they mean.