Exo-Solar Planet Pictures!

[Tuckerfan]

I vote they name the planet Yavin.

A group of European-led astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar system.

“Although it is surely much bigger than a terrestrial-size object [like Earth], it is a strange feeling that it may indeed be the first planetary system beyond our own ever imaged,” said Christophe Dumas, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory.

[Podkayne]

Bummer of a life for a planet, eh? Cursed to orbit a brown dwarf for eternity . . .

[PussyCow]

Heh heh. The astronomer’s name is “Dumbass”.

[Already_in_Use]

So the official song of the planet can be Mount Shasta’s “(He’s On) Planet Dumbass!”

[Quartz]

This is excellent news, and should be a spur for further research.

[Chefguy]

@Podkayne

Bummer of a life for a planet, eh? Cursed to orbit a brown dwarf for eternity . . .

I thought Sonny Bono was dead…

[vibrotronica]

This is very exciting.

Doesn’t convention dictate that now that we have an image, the imager gets to name the planet, or am I just pulling shit out of my ass?