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UnfairRepresent
07/03/18 7:02:48 AM
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For the first time in history, scientists have captured a picture of a planet being born.

The international team of researchers made the robust detection of the young planet, named PDS 70b, cleaving a path through the planet-forming material surrounding a young star.

The team of astronomers which was led by a group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, captured the spectacular snapshot of planetary formation around the young dwarf star PDS 70 by using the SPHERE instrument on ESOs Very Large Telescope (VLT) one of the most powerful planet-hunting instruments in existence.

The SPHERE instrument also enabled the team to measure the brightness of the planet at different wavelengths, which allowed properties of its atmosphere to be deduced.

The planet stands out very clearly in the new observations, visible as a bright point to the right of the blackened centre of the image. It is located roughly three billion kilometers from the central star, roughly equivalent to the distance between Uranus and the Sun. The analysis shows that PDS 70b is a giant gas planet with a mass a few times that of Jupiter. The planets surface has a temperature of around 1000C, making it much hotter than any planet in our own Solar System.

The dark region at the centre of the image is due to a coronagraph, a mask which blocks the blinding light of the central star and allows astronomers to detect its much fainter disc and planetary companion. Without this mask, the faint light from the planet would be utterly overwhelmed by the intense brightness of PDS 70.

These discs around young stars are the birthplaces of planets, but so far only a handful of observations have detected hints of baby planets in them, explains Miriam Keppler, who lead the team behind the discovery of PDS 70s still-forming planet. The problem is that until now, most of these planet candidates could just have been features in the disc.

PDS 70s planetary companion has sculpted a transition disc a protoplanetary disc with a giant hole in the centre. These inner gaps have been known about for decades and it has been speculated that they were produced by disc-planet interaction. Now we can see the planet for the first time.

Kepplers results give us a new window onto the complex and poorly-understood early stages of planetary evolution, comments Andr Mller, leader of the second team to investigate the young planet. We needed to observe a planet in a young stars disc to really understand the processes behind planet formation. By determining the planets atmospheric and physical properties, the astronomers are able to test theoretical models of planet formation.

This glimpse of the dust-shrouded birth of a planet was only possible thanks to the impressive technological capabilities of ESOs SPHERE instrument, which studies exoplanets and discs around nearby stars using a technique known as high-contrast imaging a challenging feat.

Even when blocking the light from a star with a coronagraph, SPHERE still has to use cleverly devised observing strategies and data processing techniques to filter out the signal of the faint planetary companions around bright young stars at multiple wavelengths and epochs.

Thomas Henning, director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and leader of the teams, summarizes the scientific adventure: After more than a decade of enormous efforts to build this high-tech machine, now SPHERE enables us to reap the harvest with the discovery of baby planets!


Full article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-capture-first-ever-confirmed-image-of-a-planet-being-born/
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Trigg3rH4ppy
07/03/18 7:42:00 AM
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Neat
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ArchiePeck
07/03/18 7:42:42 AM
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Noooooo, God made them all!
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Rika_Furude
07/03/18 7:43:11 AM
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Foppe
07/03/18 7:49:35 AM
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God created a universe that allows planets to be mde, thereby he made every planet.
Problem solved.
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iClockwork
07/03/18 7:53:47 AM
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Obvious CGI
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Rika_Furude
07/03/18 8:09:12 AM
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PanzerElite
07/03/18 8:11:05 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
but muh religion

I'm not religious but how does this discredit religion?
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SavenForever
07/03/18 8:19:15 AM
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KhanJohnny
07/03/18 8:21:32 AM
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PanzerElite posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
but muh religion

I'm not religious but how does this discredit religion?

Angstheism doesn't need explanations
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Rika_Furude
07/03/18 8:29:17 AM
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Dyinglegacy
07/03/18 8:40:15 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
Foppe posted...
God created a universe

false


How the hell do either of you limited humans know?
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UnfairRepresent
07/03/18 8:43:51 AM
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Spooking posted...
The universe just doesn't know when to keep its legs shut.

don't slutshame the universe
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Rika_Furude
07/03/18 8:44:53 AM
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Dyinglegacy posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Foppe posted...
God created a universe

false


How the hell do either of you limited humans know?

i think therefore i am
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Dyinglegacy
07/03/18 8:45:07 AM
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The picture looks like how I would imagine a black hole would look. Interesting.
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Dyinglegacy
07/03/18 8:47:00 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
Dyinglegacy posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Foppe posted...
God created a universe

false


How the hell do either of you limited humans know?

i think therefore i am


"I don't know" would have been more effective than bullshit.
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frozenshock
07/03/18 8:47:15 AM
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Funny thing is, the speed of slight is so slow relative to the size of the universe, that this planet was probably born millions and millions of years ago and the light generated at that moment is just reaching us now
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Rika_Furude
07/03/18 8:48:27 AM
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Dyinglegacy posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Dyinglegacy posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Foppe posted...
God created a universe

false


How the hell do either of you limited humans know?

i think therefore i am


"I don't know" would have been more effective than bullshit.

matter is neither created nor destroyed
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Dyinglegacy
07/03/18 8:49:54 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
Dyinglegacy posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Dyinglegacy posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Foppe posted...
God created a universe

false


How the hell do either of you limited humans know?

i think therefore i am


"I don't know" would have been more effective than bullshit.

matter is neither created nor destroyed


And?
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Rika_Furude
07/03/18 8:51:36 AM
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Dyinglegacy posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Dyinglegacy posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Dyinglegacy posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Foppe posted...
God created a universe

false


How the hell do either of you limited humans know?

i think therefore i am


"I don't know" would have been more effective than bullshit.

matter is neither created nor destroyed


And?

christians say that god creates matter
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CookieV3
07/03/18 8:53:36 AM
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Spooking posted...
The universe just doesn't know when to keep its legs shut.

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Dyinglegacy
07/03/18 8:54:28 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
christians say that god creates matter


Uh, so? Understanding of science is constantly changing. Read a bit more on that quote you listed. It is a tad more complicated than that.
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Rika_Furude
07/03/18 8:55:25 AM
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Dyinglegacy
07/03/18 8:58:17 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
so basically god breaks the laws of physics/the universe


I don't know.
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Rika_Furude
07/03/18 9:02:57 AM
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Dyinglegacy
07/03/18 9:12:16 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
it wasn't a question, not even a hypothetical one


I answered it anyway, with the most true answer that I have.
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stone
07/03/18 9:13:38 AM
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Guess I'm still sleepy. I keep seeing this topic as "Scientists capture footage of planet porn for the first time in history."
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Foppe
07/03/18 9:31:23 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...

christians say that god creates matter

Please, God created the laws of physics for this universe after he created this universe.
If that is not good enough, then God took already existing matter and turned it into our universe.
Problem solved.
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UnfairRepresent
07/03/18 10:41:54 AM
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stone posted...
Guess I'm still sleepy. I keep seeing this topic as "Scientists capture footage of planet porn for the first time in history."

wut
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spanky1
07/03/18 11:39:32 AM
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I thought the first post was going to be a picture of your mom being born XD
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Zikten
07/03/18 12:01:26 PM
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frozenshock posted...
Funny thing is, the speed of slight is so slow relative to the size of the universe, that this planet was probably born millions and millions of years ago and the light generated at that moment is just reaching us now

I wish we could someday find one that is actually new right now, and see it live. I imagine a forming planet looks really awesome in person
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Foppe
07/03/18 1:11:14 PM
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It is only 370 lightyears away, which means this happened in 1648.
It is the year when the Thirty Years' War ended.
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UnfairRepresent
07/03/18 2:11:35 PM
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Foppe posted...
It is only 370 lightyears away, which means this happened in 1648.
It is the year when the Thirty Years' War ended.

Thanks France
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Foppe
07/03/18 2:58:44 PM
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Thank Sweden for turning into a superpower.
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UnfairRepresent
07/04/18 2:10:28 PM
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Foppe posted...
Thank Sweden r.

no
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Foppe
07/04/18 2:16:10 PM
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Yes.
France continued with its war with Spain for much longer.
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