First exoplanet with ring system possibly discovered

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12 Jan 2012, 7:06 pm

http://www.space.com/14219-strange-ring ... as219.html

If this candidate turns out to actually exist this ring system puts those of Saturn to shame. It is amazing the rate of discovery current in our local pocket of the universe. It is only a matter of time now before "exomoons" will be detected, and perhaps even other habitable planets comparable to Earth

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13 Jan 2012, 4:43 am

i read about a plan [pending funding, as usual] to erect a "terrestrial planet finder" series of interferometric telescopes out near jupiter's orbit, to make an effective telescope many times the earth's size, which would be powerful enough to directly image extrasolar planets in great detail. well short of the technology needed to actually travel out there for a look-see, this would be the [most practical] next best thing and a good value for NA$A's $pace buck$. and imagine what a radio telescope would reveal if it had similar resolving power.

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15 Jan 2012, 1:54 pm

They should totally do it. Imagine the images we would get of exoplanets!!

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15 Jan 2012, 5:25 pm

i would love to be able to listen-in on radio-frequency broadcasts from those faraway planets. i just read today that they discovered a miniature all-in-miniature solar system composed of a dwarf star the size of jupiter, and a handful of little planets, but they were all too close to the star to be temperate of climate.

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15 Jan 2012, 5:36 pm

We need a quantum telescope.

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15 Jan 2012, 6:11 pm

androbot2084 wrote:

We need a quantum telescope.

gee

how would one of those jobs work? i remember the query about how does a heisenberg compensator work for the star trek teleporters, and the reply being, "very well, thank you!"

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16 Jan 2012, 7:43 am

It's the first for which we know got rings, but certainly not the first we dicscovered that actually got rings.

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16 Jan 2012, 8:48 am

Tollorin wrote:

It's the first for which we know got rings, but certainly not the first we dicscovered that actually got rings.

I'm a little confused, what do you men exactly? The first "confirmed" rings? I know they have discovered stars with rings of dust but I am fairly certain this is the first "planet" with rings outside our system confirmed

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16 Jan 2012, 11:21 am

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It's the first for which we know got rings, but certainly not the first we dicscovered that actually got rings.

They do not have confirmed other planets with rings, but certainly, among all those planets discovered, many must have rings.

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16 Jan 2012, 11:26 am

Tollorin wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

Tollorin wrote:

It's the first for which we know got rings, but certainly not the first we dicscovered that actually got rings.

They do not have confirmed other planets with rings, but certainly, among all those planets discovered, many must have rings.

How can you say "certainly" and "not confirmed" in the same paragraph?

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16 Jan 2012, 1:59 pm

I invented my quantum telescope when I worked at the Lawrence Livermore atomic radiation laboratory.

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16 Jan 2012, 3:58 pm

Tollorin wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

Tollorin wrote:

It's the first for which we know got rings, but certainly not the first we dicscovered that actually got rings.

They do not have confirmed other planets with rings, but certainly, among all those planets discovered, many must have rings.

Hmm.. vous pouvez expliquer en francais si c'est plus facile

Though I did say in the thread title "possibly" and in my OP said "if it turns out to actually exist" so no argument from me if you are saying it is not confirmed. I think ring systems are probably a fairly common occurrence

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16 Jan 2012, 7:54 pm

Vigilans wrote:

Tollorin wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

Tollorin wrote:

It's the first for which we know got rings, but certainly not the first we dicscovered that actually got rings.

They do not have confirmed other planets with rings, but certainly, among all those planets discovered, many must have rings.

They certainly are in this solar system...

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/questi ... number=206

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16 Jan 2012, 9:27 pm

GoonSquad wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

Tollorin wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

Tollorin wrote:

It's the first for which we know got rings, but certainly not the first we dicscovered that actually got rings.

They do not have confirmed other planets with rings, but certainly, among all those planets discovered, many must have rings.

They certainly are in this solar system...

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/questi ... number=206

Good point; I think it is fair to say that most gas giants probably have some form of ring system. If not all the time, then at least for a few million years at a time

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17 Jan 2012, 7:06 pm

Tollorin wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

Tollorin wrote:

It's the first for which we know got rings, but certainly not the first we dicscovered that actually got rings.

They do not have confirmed other planets with rings, but certainly, among all those planets discovered, many must have rings.

Yes- there is another thread concurrent about how Keplar has alredy discovered 1200 exoplanets ( boogles the mnd!).

We have Saturn, and its either Neptune or Uranus ( I forget which) that also has a modest ring system. So thats two out of nine for our own solar system. And our methods of detecting exoplanets is skewed in favor of finding gas giants which (atleast in our solar system) are the very subset that tends to get rings. So out out of the 1200 plus exoplanets theyve found its safe to say that 2 to 4 hundred probably have rings.

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