# What Has Hubble Found THIS Time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890 "2008-11-09T09:45:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/21 "2008-11-10T00:42:00Z")
A big ball of yarn, like massive. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/22 "2008-11-10T00:44:40Z")
> [@kasuo](#): > > A big ball of yarn, like massive. Oh, oh. You know what [that](http://www.poptoad.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/space_cat_large.jpg) means… ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/23 "2008-11-10T00:50:06Z")
Planet Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/24 "2008-11-10T02:04:27Z")
Given the ratio of hype to hard data, it’s probably going to be something like “Hubble has discovered a cloud around a newly formed star that could be a solar system in the process of forming. A cloud with **elements** in it! Like hydrogen! And oxygen! That means if the cloud ever does form planets and one of them is the right mass and distance from it’s star, it could have **water**!!!” Well duh, we didn’t think planets were eggs laid by starbirds. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/25 "2008-11-10T02:25:13Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Well duh, we didn’t think planets were eggs laid by starbirds. No, the Great A’Tuin lays planet eggs. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/26 "2008-11-13T21:11:56Z")
Images of planets that orbit sun-like (if younger) stars. One of which they imaged THREE planets! 🆒 I’l let Phil explain: [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/13/huge-exoplanet-news-items-pictures/](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/13/huge-exoplanet-news-items-pictures/) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/27 "2008-11-13T21:27:24Z")
Wow. That’s amazing! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/28 "2008-11-13T21:28:41Z")
> **[Mysterious glowing aurora over Saturn confounds scientists](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1085354/Mysterious-glowing-aurora-Saturn-confounds-scientists.html)** > > A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it is unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. How about this.? ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/29 "2008-11-13T21:33:43Z")
It turns out this Hubble discover actually _is_ one for the ages! Yes, the mighty Hubble Telescope has discovered and photographed, lingering in the depths of space, the dark lord **Sauron** himself! It turns out Peter Jackson [had it right after all!](http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Hubble-Telescope-NASA/photo//081113/480/cdb035b52b5b413a80da4d10bb811841//s:/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/sci_new_planets;_ylt=Ai8.jJs68lkqnIj_XVruwD5xieAA#photoViewer=/081113/480/cdb035b52b5b413a80da4d10bb811841) ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/30 "2008-11-13T21:39:26Z")
[Direct observation of a planet observing another star.](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/fomalhaut.html) Not Earth-sized, but less than 3 Jupiters and 10 times the Sun-Saturn distance from its parent star… ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/31 "2008-11-13T21:41:50Z")
I’d like to add, that it seems Sauron’s gaze is upon us, and if he has anything to do with global warming, el nino, and a blizzard in the Rockies, his arm has grown long indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/32 "2008-11-13T21:45:41Z")
It might not be his arm that caused that blizzard. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/33 "2008-11-13T22:23:10Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > [Direct observation of a planet observing another star.](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/fomalhaut.html) How good _is_ a planet’s eyesight? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/34 "2008-11-13T22:29:07Z")
A garden planet with hippos. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/35 "2008-11-13T22:47:43Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > How good _is_ a planet’s eyesight? Really rather good? 😉 I should have said orbiting… Serves me right for not previewing… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/36 "2008-11-13T23:17:12Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Supernova hate press release! Supernova angry! – golf clap – ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/37 "2008-11-14T01:19:48Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > [If they show us something that looks like [url=“http://www.physicsguides.com/images/deathstar.jpg”]this](http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/nov/HQ_M08227_Hubble.html), I think we might ought to get worried. 😉 Worried? Why? We have the plans. A small torpedo could start a chain reaction, and some kid who used to bull’s-eye womp rats in his T-sixteen back home could hit it. Womp rats are not much bigger than two meters. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890/38 "2008-11-14T12:10:49Z")
Alright three threads on this now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-hubble-found-this-time/471890.md?page=1)