# Exo-Solar Planet Pictures!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exo-solar-planet-pictures/264024>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 11, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exo-solar-planet-pictures/264024 "2004-09-11T07:38:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exo-solar-planet-pictures/264024/1 "2004-09-11T07:38:32Z")

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[I vote they name the planet Yavin.](http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planet_photo_040910.html)

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> 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.
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> “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.

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**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exo-solar-planet-pictures/264024/2 "2004-09-11T18:10:18Z")

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

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**Author:** ![PussyCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@PussyCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PussyCow)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exo-solar-planet-pictures/264024/3 "2004-09-12T00:08:07Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exo-solar-planet-pictures/264024/4 "2004-09-12T17:25:19Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exo-solar-planet-pictures/264024/5 "2004-09-12T17:47:01Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exo-solar-planet-pictures/264024/6 "2004-09-12T19:11:35Z")

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> [@Podkayne](#):
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> Bummer of a life for a planet, eh? Cursed to orbit a brown dwarf for eternity . . .

I thought Sonny Bono was dead…

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**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exo-solar-planet-pictures/264024/7 "2004-09-12T20:36:43Z")

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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?