h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

32 more extrasolar planets have been announced today
That makes the current total 406
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8314581.stm

Wow! I had no idea there were that many.

You can download a widget for your desktop if you're interested in keeping track: http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/widget.cfm but that doesn't include today's finds yet. I found today's info out by another means

some are 5 to 10 size larger than us and some the same size figures larger than Jupiter - must be a long walk to the shops

Just so they all don't turn up at once.............

I like those links

Last year I spent a lot of time seeing the NASA picture of the day and pictures from the Hubble.

In the second link if you go to Home and leave the mouse on Overview, there appear some pitures, two of them are

Thanks GB

I need a new space piccy for my 'pooter desktop.

Any recommendations?

Tal,
check here:

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy/

What a fantastic gallery, thanks for that Mar

Thank you, Mar

They are beautiful. I wonder if we will have another space telescope in the future? Hubble has definitely given us some great views

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Three have been deemed brown dwarfs so the total planet count is now 403

it's only a question of time before we will have visitors, i tell you

*goes to brew *

I was just saying that to my daughter when she collected her son. Not the same words, but how close we are to finding Earth's twin. Then some will go off! The news will probably knock Jordan's sexlife off the front pages of some newspapers

I knew he was a prolific h2g2 author, but I'd never heard that side to his character!

the way i see it, there are three ways of believing about extra terrestrial life - or lack thereoff :

1. the conditions for life as we know it are so rare we will only find it in one place in the universe we know: our

2. there are so many galaxies, stars and planets in the known universe it is absurd to believe there is only one like ours somewhere out there

3. who says intelligent life out there is anything like we know



ps: 4. er, how intelligent is life on this here actually

Aye Cap'n

There's plenty of intelligent life on , there's the white and dolphins

AGB, you just restored my faith in humanity