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the James web telescope has been
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providing us with spectacular images
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from space for 2 years now and while the
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most powerful Space Telescope of all
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time has been peering into the deepest
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and oldest secrets of the cosmos it has
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not only provided astronomers with many
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groundbreaking insights but also a
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number of tantalizing mysteries for how
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can it that galaxies are slumbering out
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there which according to our
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understanding should not exist at all
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why does the value of the Hubble
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constant measured by web which describes
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the expansion rate of the universe
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simply not match our current models well
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these are questions to which experts are
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currently desperately searching for
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answers fortunately the James web
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telescope is not only capable of
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uncovering the most baffling mysteries
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of space but also its over whelming
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almost frightening Beauty which
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regularly reminds us how small we are in
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the grand scheme of things humans like
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to describe themselves as the crown of
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creation whether we want to accept this
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not exactly modest title is of course up
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to each of us to decide for ourselves
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but when it comes to the question of the
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most impressive creators of the universe
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it is clear who deserves the honor but
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before we get it wrong the James web
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telescope has of course not uncovered
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some ominous power that created the
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cosmos but together with Hubble has
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provided an unprecedented combined view
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of The Pillars of Creation which are
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among the most famous photo motifs in
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modern space exploration some 7,000
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Lighty years away from us in the open
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star cluster of the Eagle Nebula we are
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looking at the glowing pillars of a
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stellar cradle captured for the first
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time by the hule Space Telescope
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basically Stellar life begins in dense
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cool clouds of gas and dust when the gas
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clumps collapse under their own gravity
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a protostar is formed first which
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attracts matter from its immediate
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surroundings and as soon as the
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sparkling Offspring has built up enough
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Mass it can ignite the hydrogen Fusion
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in its interior and become a real star
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however Stars often do not develop on
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their own but in Collective alliances
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such as the Pillars of Creation but
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while the Hubble Cosmic snapshot sh from
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1995 still shows the overwhelming
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structure in the visible wave range the
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James web telescope took a look at it in
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the infrared the combination of these
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two images ultimately gives us
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completely new insights into this
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structure whose fingerlike outgrowths
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are even larger than our entire solar
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system and while countless newborn Proto
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stars and stars lie dormant in the dusty
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cumner cocoons their intense radiation
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and Stellar winds have blown gaping
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holes into the dust cloud shells giving
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them an unmistakable appearance given
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this breathtaking sight it's no wonder
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that The Pillars of Creation were among
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the first subjects of the James web
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telescope in
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2022 but now NASA has combined the
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Hubble and web images to reveal even
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more details while the infrared images
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reveal the Stellar babies and cool gas
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components the visible light presents
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the scorching hot glowing gases of the
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star Forge the bottom line is that the
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spectacle is not only available as a
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photo but also as a video if you watch
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the corresponding clip you will be
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treated to an exciting flight through
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the threedimensional Pillars of Creation
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in the course of this the view switches
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between visible and infrared light
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proving once again why it is so
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important to explore the different
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aspects of one and the same structure
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with more than one Space
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Telescope the Stellar family portrait
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no less fascinating than the combined
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view of The Pillars of Creation is the
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family photo that Webb recently snapped
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in the Serpent's nebula 1300 light years
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away in detail we are also dealing here
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with a stellar Nursery more precisely
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with a so-called reflection nebula which
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produces no light of its own but is
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illuminated solely by the Light of the
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stars in its interior and its vicinity
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for the telescopes of the past the
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nebuli were often still insurmountable
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Optical barriers but web's near cam is
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able to penetrate the dust and gas
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compounds to a certain degree and thus
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make visible those things that have
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eluded our research vision for so long
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and while the gas and dust in the images
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are a vibrant orange red and blue we can
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also see the intense Sparkle of the
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countless young Stars some of these
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dazzlingly bright celestial bodies are
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just 100,000 years old which means they
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are still in their infancy in
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astronomical terms and yet one day they
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will have the mass of our sun the bottom
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line is that one detail of the Star
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Family Portrait is particularly striking
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the Flamel likee structures at the top
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left of the image which are reminiscent
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of colossal shreds these are the traces
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of gas and radiation outflows from Young
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Stars which appeared in earlier images
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invisible light either as blurred spots
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or even completely invisible NASA
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Compares these Proto Stellar outflows to
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sleep falling from the sky during a
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strong storm and this is the first image
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to show that the outflows all point in
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the same direction but what for us are
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merely structures moving from top left
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to bottom right on the images are an
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important research indication for the
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experts after all this image evidence
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supports the assumption that young Stars
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tend to rotate in the same direction
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when their gaseous birth envelopes
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collapse but what's the story behind the
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black bars at the bottom left and top
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right of the image has NASA applied the
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sensor pen here to make one or two UFOs
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unrecognizable well unfortunately it's
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not quite that exciting the black
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rectangles simply indicate missing
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data the first photo of the super
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Jupiter
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6,911 exoplanets in
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4,941 systems the number of known
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planetary worlds orbiting a host star
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other than the sun is growing
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practically by the day
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researchers have already added some
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unusual celestial bodies to the star
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Maps as part of the planet hunt so far
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these include for example the gas giant
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hd189733b
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which is only 63 light years away and
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according to the latest findings smells
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like rotten eggs but what initially
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sounds rather strange or amusing is
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actually the first evidence of hydrogen
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sulfide on an extra Solar Planet apart
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from this the expert have also proved to
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have the right nose in other areas
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because we now know of a whole series of
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nearby exoplanets some of which are
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earth-sized and even potentially
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life-friendly in this Regard
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k218b in particular has been making
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headlines for several months because
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this Celestial body is actually
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suspected of being a full-blown Ocean
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World on which life may even have
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already unfolded in detail web's near
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infrared spectrometer near speec
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captured some potential bio signatures
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here specifically the spectral
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signatures of methane carbon dioxide and
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dimethyl sulfide or DMS for short the
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latter is produced on Earth by Marine
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Plankton and during the decomposition of
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organic substances the molecule is the
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main supplier of atmospheric sulfur and
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produces the typical Marine odor how the
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DMS signal on k218b is to be interpreted
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however is a completely different matter
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in fact it was not particularly
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pronounced in the web data and only
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revealed itself when the data sets were
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analyzed in a very special way so until
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the background to this exciting
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Discovery is fully clarified a little
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patience is still required but things
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look a little different in the case of a
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snapshot that web took in a completely
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different place despite all the
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exoplanets that have already been
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discovered different images of these
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alien worlds are still in short supply
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most Imes mainly show young hot gas
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giants after all these appear as
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comparatively bright spots on the light
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in the infrared but there is a much
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cooler way a few weeks ago Elizabeth
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Matthews and her team from the max plank
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Institute for astronomy in heidleberg
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succeeded for the first time in making a
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cold older exoplanet directly visible
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the foundation for the image was laid by
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studying the triple star system Epsilon
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Indie which is located just 12 light
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years away from us and while the cosmic
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Trio is made up of two brown dwarfs and
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the orange dwarf star Epsilon India
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earlier spectral analysis had already
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indicated the existence of a large
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planetary companion an analysis with
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web's Miry spectrograph later revealed
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that the system did indeed Harbor an
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exoplanet but it was in a completely
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different location than the earlier
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studies had suggested the simple reason
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for this was that the previous studies
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had hopelessly underestimated the mass
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and orbit of this Giant gas planet
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because the bottom line is that we are
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dealing here with a Celestial body that
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can confidently be described as a super
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Jupiter we remember as the largest
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member of our planetary System Jupiter
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has a diameter of around 140,000 km and
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a mass of 318 Earth masses however the
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bright point of light that the experts
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detected in the images of Epsilon Indie
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is probably six times the mass of our
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Jupiter christened Epsilon Indie a-b the
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extrasolar Colossus orbits the main star
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Epsilon Indie a in a relatively
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eccentric orbit the greatest distance of
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which corresponds approximately to the
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distance between the Sun and Neptune as
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a result of this constellation super
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Jupiter takes a whopping 200 years to
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complete a full orbit and it was in fact
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this eccentric orbit that explained the
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surprising deviations in earlier
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observations this is because they had
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actually detected the planet at the
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closest point to the star in its orbit
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and in the same breath incorrectly
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located it in a circular orbit however
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the new analysis was not only
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accompanied by an orbit correction but
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also revealed some of the exoplanets
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characteristics for example the
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thermometer here drops to around 0° on
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average and with an age of around 3.5
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billion years the gas giant is truly no
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longer a planetary youngster of the 25
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or so exoplanets directly IM so far all
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were less than 500 million years old the
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majority had less than 100 million years
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under their belt against this background
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Epsilon India a-b is therefore not only
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the coldest but also by far the oldest
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exoplanet that has been directly imaged
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to date the corresponding images are of
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course not only beautiful to look at for
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the scientists they also hold huge
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potential for gaining new insights for
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example aged exoplanets of this kind are
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ideal for putting our models of
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planetary development to the test and
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Gathering new information about the
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later stages of extrasolar Worlds at the
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same time however Epsilon Indie a-b
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still holds a few mysteries in store for
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it appears that parts of its radiation
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in the shorter wavelength range are
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literally being swallowed up there may
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be clouds in the gas giants atmosphere
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that are responsible for absorbing the
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infrared radiation although chemical
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compound compounds such as methane
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carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are
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also possible causes conveniently the
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experts are already planning to
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investigate the consequences and
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provided nothing unforeseen happens the
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true reasons for the suppressed
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radiation flux will soon be clarified
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