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brigadecommander 27-Aug-25, 19:15	Finally some good news...........Finally For the first time in History Astronomers here on Earth, have photographed an Exo-Planet orbiting another Star. Taken by the VLT TELESCOPE IN Chile. Using a coronagraph to block out the Stars bright light, they took this photo.;apod.nasa.gov It's just a matter of time and Technology before we can see surface features on oxo Planets. Maybe even a Habitable Planet.
apatzer 27-Aug-25, 20:23	That is amazing. I'm guessing it's a hot Jupiter.
bobspringett 27-Aug-25, 20:28	Athena What an amazing shot! I can recall in my teens that everyone 'knew' that we would never be able to even detect an exoplanet. To photograph one wasn't even sci-fi; it was fantasy. I'm hoping for a Long Baseline Interferometer to be put into solar orbit some day before I die. One with enough resolution and light-gathering power to take a detailed spectrograph of an exoplanet, checking for molecular oxygen and perhaps even chlorophyl.
lord_shiva 28-Aug-25, 21:07	Spaced Based Interferometer The TPF was a NASA project (long since cancelled) 5hat would have placed an optical interferometer in space capable of resolving surface features of Earth sized exoplanets. [Pauses significant minutes just to salivate].

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