SETI public: Fw: Yes, it is the Image of an Exoplanet (ESO PR 12/05)

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Subject: Yes, it is the Image of an Exoplanet (ESO PR 12/05)

Dear subscribers,

Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System

In February and March of this year, astronomers took new images of the young brown dwarf 2M1207 and its giant planet companion with the NACO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope.

The new images show convincingly that this really is a giant planet, approximately five times the mass of Jupiter, that is gravitationally bound to the brown dwarf. It is thus the first planet that has ever been imaged outside of our solar system.

ESO Press Release 12/05 describing these results is at http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-12-05.html> while the longer web story, with Press Photos 14a-d/05 and a video, is at http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-12-05-p2.html>

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At the Annual Meeting of the US National Academy of Sciences, on April 30, ESO's Director General, Dr. Catherine Cesarsky, was officially inducted into this highly prestigious society. Among its distinguished members, the National Academy now includes 83 astronomers.

Read the details in ESO Press Release 13/05 at http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-13-05.html>

With kind regards,

The ESO Public Affairs Dept.

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