First Four-Exoplanet System Imaged 89
Phoghat writes "Among the first exoplanet systems imaged was HR 8799. In 2008, a team led by Christian Marois at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada took a picture of the system, directly imaging three giant planets."
Quite strange. (Score:5, Interesting)
Fast forward 400 years, images captured on a charge coupled device producing pixels from light gathered by giant telescopes is considered "direct imaging" and is somehow more reliable and more worthy of our trust than the Doppler shifts, wobbles and loss of brightness due to osculation!
Let's not ignore the oceans (Score:5, Interesting)
The oceans are about 5% explored. [noaa.gov] More resources should be geared toward the oceans as well.
You never know...we might find some creature under there that has some complex protein mankind could use to treat chronic diseases like diabetes, AIDS and the like.
How'z that?
Re:Once the tech process gets better... (Score:5, Interesting)