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The Hubble appears to have gotten some nice pictures of Fomalhaut, a young star about 25 light years away, that suggest strongly that there are planets forming around it. Better yet, they don't think that any of the planets could be larger than five Jupiter masses.

So if we can just wait a billion years or so, there might be some nice real estate there. Maybe.

Date: 2005-06-24 04:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drzarron.livejournal.com
Course we REALLY need those planets to form.. Fomalhut 3 is better known as The Dorsai

Date: 2005-06-24 04:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tigertoy.livejournal.com
I'd forgotten that; my thought was that I was rooting for the fourth planet to be habitable and have five moons. Of course that's an obscure reference no one is likely to recognize.

Date: 2005-06-24 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jabberwokky.livejournal.com
Isn't there another fictional world set there? I seem to recall something else... maybe a Moon or McCaffrey book or eight using that system.

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