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Halloween Pictures: Ten Spooky Objects in Outer Space

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« on: October 30, 2011, 04:11:13 am »



Eye of Sauron

Image courtesy P. Kalas, U.C. Berkeley/ESA/NASA

In 2008 astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that they had gazed into the Lidless Eye of the Dark Lord Sauron—and found a new planet.

Despite its eerie resemblance to the Lord of the Rings icon, the frame above actually shows a Hubble picture of Fomalhaut, a bright southern star about 25 light-years from Earth. The fiery "iris" is a ring of planet-forming material that surrounds the star, and a small bright speck embedded in the ring is the Jupiter-like planet Fomalhaut b.

The image was the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star.

Published October 27, 2011
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