I love living in the future.

[theweaselking]

This is Formalhaut b.

In visible light.

Say hello, everyone.

Comments

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

*flail in excitement*

Hello!

*flails some more*

[ikkarus01.livejournal.com]

Hot damn that is awesome.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

I don't understand. :/

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Wow, that took way more googling than it should have. That is AWESOME.

WANA.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You could have just clicked the image and let Phil Plait explain it to you.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

No, I couldn't have, because work blocked the image and the site it linked to. Sigh.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Your workplace doesn't like Discover Magazine?

Are they creationists?

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Worse -- property and casualty insurance.

[squizzlzilla.livejournal.com]

My brain read that as causality insurance. I'm not sure what this says about me.

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

Phil was on the local morning show the other day. Good times.

The part about looking at how far we've come in such a short time and how in that short time from now we could go that much further is just awesome. Hubble was carried into space 18 years ago. Imagine what we'll be seeing 18 years from now.


...christ, I'll only be 50.

[sleary.livejournal.com]

Turned the other way, that system seriously looks like the Eye of Sauron.

*waves to Mordor*

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

[belle-canto.livejournal.com]

This makes my day!

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Dude, change the B to lowercase, otherwise you're implying it's a companion star.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

This convention displeases your global Emperor.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Astronomers are weird. Too many lonely nights staring into telescopes.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

OH SHIT CTHUGA CAN SEE US

[squizzlzilla.livejournal.com]

this was my first thought on reading it was formalhaut.