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Planets with 4 Suns Discovered? Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - Iddo Genuth Home >> Picture Of The Day >> Space
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| NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently discovered what might be the first planetary system with four Suns. The quadruple-star system known as HD 988000 is approximately 10-million years old, and is located 150 light-years away from Earth (fairly close in astronomical terms) in the constellation TW Hydrae. Scientists are still examining the data sent by the telescope in order to determine whether gaps in the dusty disk orbiting around a pair of stars in the middle of HD 988000 indicate the formation of new planets or a different form of gravitational phenomena. | ||||||||||
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The Spitzer's infrared spectrometer enabled astronomers to study the 'dusty disk' that revolves around a pair of stars in the quadruple-star system HD 98800 for the first time. Such 'dusty disks', formally called accretion discs, are composed of diffuse material that is set in orbital motion around a central body or bodies. These accretion discs are thought to be the birth place of planets. Using Spitzer, the astronomers detected gaps in the accretion disc which they interpret as either the result of a unique gravitational relationship between the system's four stars or as a possible indication of planet formation close to the two suns. More information on the recent finding can be found on NASA's website. Image: Artist's concept illustrates a quadruple-star system (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA). |
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it is gd 2 see that our scientist are working hard to find all THE MYSTIES although it is so vast!!!!!!! |
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where ufo came from in galaxy universe another galaxy universe black hole came from there |
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thanks for an excellent article and picture... and especially the quote from Elise Furlan... |
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There are no UFOs in Area 51. From what I can gather it's a simple USAF research facility. Four suns? Wow. I wonder what'll happen when one of them goes black... |
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I woke up about 6 mins ago had a dream about a place like this decided to look it up and found this but two of them exploded which made meteror like rain then turned dark it destroyed alot of stuff I was in a hotel I could see the modern day was nothing like today highways, houses,cars and tech was far from today weird but if ican make a movie it would be clear. |
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It isn't a UFO, UFO's and aliens are just figments of imagination created by someone who just thought they'd scare other people or just becuase they saw some bird or something flying around and they didn't know what it was. This is obviously just a quadrupel star system with apparently a planet in orbit. |
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Actually, i had a similiar dream about it last night. i was outside and there were 4 suns in the sky. but, i remember saying that it was vaporizing our atmosphere away and that all the oxygen was being vaporized as well. which brings me to a question. A planet that has 4 suns probably wouldn\\\\\\\'t have, if any, much of an atmosphere, correct? |
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I also had a dream that was in a hotel in what i think was Italy when all of a sudden it became so bright and when i saw outside there were four suns. Weird. |