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Our beautiful but unremarkable population I star–4.5 billion years old (stellar middle age), medium size and luminosity. Other than providing a habitable zone for Earth, it hosts 9 planets. SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) full-field Fe IX, X 171 Ã… images from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Our beautiful but unremarkable population I star–4.5 billion years old (stellar middle age), medium size and luminosity. Other than providing a habitable zone for Earth, it hosts 9 planets. White-light Mk. 4 coronameter images from the High Altitude Observatory Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (Hawaii)
CoKu Tau/1. This image shows a newborn binary star system, CoKu Tau/1, lying at the center of four "wings" of light extending as much as 75 billion miles from the pair. The "wings" outline the edges of a region in the stars' dusty surroundings, which have been cleared by outflowing gas. A thin, dark lane extends to the left and to right of the binary, suggesting that a disk or ring of dusty material encircles the two young stars.
I04016 – A very young star still deep within the dusty cocoon from which it formed is shown in this image of IRAS 04016+2610. The star is visible as a bright reddish spot at the base of a bowl-shaped nebula about 100 billion miles across at the widest point. The nebula arises from dusty material falling onto a forming circumstellar disk, seen as a partial dark band to the left of the star. The necklace of bright spots above the star is an image artifact.
I04302 – This image shows IRAS 04302+2247, a star hidden from direct view and seen only by the nebula it illuminates. Dividing the nebula in two is a dense, edge-on disk of dust and gas which appears as the thick, dark band crossing the center of the image. The disk has a diameter of 80 billion miles (15 times the diameter of Neptune's orbit), and has a mass comparable to the Solar Nebula, which gave birth to our planetary system. Dark clouds and bright wisps above and below the disk suggest that it is still building up from infalling dust and gas.
The following illustration is an artist's conception of how gas and dust around a newborn star evolves into a planetary system. Earliest stage,the circumstellar disk is shown edge-on with the disk eclipsing the star.
The following illustration is an artist's conception of how gas and dust around a newborn star evolves into a planetary system. Earliest stage,the circumstellar disk is shown at a tilt halfway between edge-on.
The following illustration is an artist's conception of how gas and dust around a newborn star evolves into a planetary system. Earliest stage,the circumstellar disk is shown face-on.
The following illustration is an artist's conception of how gas and dust around a newborn star evolves into a planetary system. Later stage, the circumstellar disk is shown edge-on. The brightness of the young star has been de-emphasized to show details in the evolving planetary system.
The following illustration is an artist's conception of how gas and dust around a newborn star evolves into a planetary system. Later stage, the circumstellar disk is shown halfway tilted from edge-on. The brightness of the young star has been de-emphasized to show details in the evolving planetary system.
The following illustration is an artist's conception of how gas and dust around a newborn star evolves into a planetary system. Later stage, the circumstellar disk is shown face-on, with planetary orbits as new ring structures The brightness of the young star has been de-emphasized to show details in the evolving planetary system.
Our beautiful but unremarkable population I star–4.5 billion years old (stellar middle age), medium size and luminosity. Other than providing a habitable zone for Earth, it hosts 9 planets. SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) full-field Fe XII 195 Ã… images from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Big blue marble, tiny pale dot–the clincher image of a biological planet discovered, beyond the capabilities of our galactic location and optics
The Doppler shift caused by wobble in light curves of star with surrounding planets. In this instance Lick Observatory , 51 Pegasi-50 light years from Earth–0.051 AU from parent star to planet. In constellation, Pegasus, the star 51 Pegasi is a yellow dwarf similar in size and structure to the Earth's own Sun. Because of closeness to its parent, this was the first example of a 'hot Jupiter' in size and relative proximity.
An image of the star Upsilon Andromedae. The newly discovered planets are not able to be seen, because of the overpowering brightness of the star. Image: Digital Sky Survey
Centered,Gliese 876-15 light years from Earth–0.21 AU from parent star to planet. Notable as one of the closest discovered stars with planets 1.6 times as massive as Jupiter detected by Doppler wobble.
Rho Coronae Borealis–57 light years from Earth–0.23 AU from parent star to planet
Early Earth as the Sun-Earth equilibrium brought a habitable zone to biological productivity.
Our beautiful but unremarkable population I star–4.5 billion years old (stellar middle age), medium size and luminosity. Other than providing a habitable zone for Earth, it hosts 9 planets. SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) full-field Fe XV 284 Ã… images from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Our beautiful but unremarkable population I star–4.5 billion years old (stellar middle age), medium size and luminosity. Other than providing a habitable zone for Earth, it hosts 9 planets. SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) full-field He II 304 Ã… images from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Our beautiful but unremarkable population I star–4.5 billion years old (stellar middle age), medium size and luminosity. Other than providing a habitable zone for Earth, it hosts 9 planets. Soft X-ray Telescope
Our beautiful but unremarkable population I star–4.5 billion years old (stellar middle age), medium size and luminosity. Other than providing a habitable zone for Earth, it hosts 9 planets. Photospheric magnetograms from the U.S. National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak (Arizona)
Our beautiful but unremarkable population I star–4.5 billion years old (stellar middle age), medium size and luminosity. Other than providing a habitable zone for Earth, it hosts 9 planets. He I 10830 Ã… spectroheliograms from the U.S. National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak (Arizona)
Our beautiful but unremarkable population I star–4.5 billion years old (stellar middle age), medium size and luminosity. Other than providing a habitable zone for Earth, it hosts 9 planets. RISE/PSPT Ca II K filtergrams from HAO's Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (Hawaii)
Our beautiful but unremarkable population I star–4.5 billion years old (stellar middle age), medium size and luminosity. Other than providing a habitable zone for Earth, it hosts 9 planets. SOHO Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) 6767 Ã… continuum images from Stanford University
Upsilon Andromedae-57 light years from Earth–0.056 AU from parent star to planet. Distinction as first system of planets around star similar to our own Sun. Previously, only single planet star systems had been found. Credit: © Lynette Cook (used with permission of the artist), http://extrasolar.spaceart.org/extraso2.html
Planetoid, Quaoar, beyond Pluto is an icy planet of crystalline water
© David Egge (Artwork from Novaspace Galleries, used with permission from Novaspace)View of Gliese 876 and a ringed Jupiter-class planet from an icy moon, as imagined by Egge
This artist's concept shows the orbits of a triple-star system called HD 188753, which was discovered to harbor a gas giant, or "hot Jupiter," planet.
This artist's concept shows the view from a hypothetical moon in orbit around the first known planet to reside in a tight-knit triple-star system. The gas giant planet, discovered using the Keck I telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, zips around a single star that is orbited by a nearby pair of pirouetting stars.
This artist's concept shows the planet catalogued as 2003UB313 at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. Our Sun can be seen in the distance. The new planet, which is yet to be formally named, is at least as big as Pluto and about three times farther away from the Sun than Pluto. It is very cold and dark. The planet was discovered by the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, Calif., on Jan. 8, 2005.Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The discovery of the moon of the 10th planet from the W.M. Keck Observatory. The planet appears in the center,while the moon is the small dot at the 3 o'clock position. Credit: W.M. Keck Observatory
Grover Swartzlander, associate professor in the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences, with a laboratory setup that checks an experimental optical vortex mask.
Computed intensity of vortex coronagraph for a single color light source. The analytically derived distribution predicts there will be zero light across the central black disk. (Image courtesy of Grover Swartzlander, University of Arizona, Tucson College of Optical Sciences)
Artist's conception of a "super-Earth" and hypothetical moon, orbiting a red dwarf star 9,000 light-years away. The 13-Earth-mass planet was detected by a search for microlensing events, in which the gravity of a foreground star distorts the light of a more distant background star. Credit: David A. Aguilar (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Fig. 1 – Inward migration of a swarm of protoplanets. The protoplanets are represented by white circles, with size proportional to mass. The disc is coloured according to density: the brighter part is the denser region of the disc. Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics
An international team of professional and amateur astronomers, using simple off-the-shelf equipment to trawl the skies for planets outside our solar system, has hauled in its first "catch." The astronomers discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a Sun-like star 600 light-years from Earth in the constellation Corona Borealis. The team, led by Peter McCullough of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., includes four amateur astronomers from North America and Europe. This artist's impression shows a dramatic close-up of the extrasolar planet, called XO-1b, passing in front of a Sun-like star 600 light-years from Earth. The Jupiter-sized planet is in a tight four-day orbit around the star. Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. McCullough (STScI)
Astronomers used this inexpensive telescope to find an extrasolar planet transiting the face of a Sun-like star 600 light-years from Earth. The telescope, which looks like a pair of binoculars, consists of two 200-millimeter telephoto camera lenses. The lenses are attached to electronic devices that measured slight dips in light output from the star, indicating that an object was crossing in front of it. The telescope is on the summit of the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Stys (STScI)
Computer generated simulation of TrES-2. Credit: Jeffrey Hall, Lowell Observatory
TrES-2 was identified from observations made with the 10-cm telescopes, Sleuth and PSST. Credit: Caltech
Computer simulation of a transit of TrES-2. Credit: Jeffrey Hall, Lowell Observatory
Artist concept of Sim PlanetQuest. Image credit: NASA/JPL
Artist's concept of a planet 3.2 times more massive than Earth. This image is part of a graph that shows the number of potentially habitable planets the Space Interferometry Mission PlanetQuest would have the sensitivity to find. Click on the link below for the full graph. Image credit: NASA/JPL
COROT, due for launch in late 2006, will be the first spacecraft devoted to the search for rocky planets, similar to our own Earth. It will look for the tiny drop in light caused by a planet as it slips across the face of its parent star. Credits: CNES/D.Ducros
Photo of the COROT's telescope primary mirror, manufactured by SAGEM/REOSC. Credits: Sagem
This artist´ impression shows the surface of a possible exoplanet placed at exactly the right distance from its parent star for liquid water to exist on its surface. Credits: ESA. Illustration by Medialab
COROT captured its first image while viewing the constellation of the Unicorn near Orion. Credit: CNES
Barrie Jones, Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at The Open University in the UK.
Binary and multiple-star systems are about twice as abundant as single-star systems in our galaxy. In a typical binary system, two stars of roughly similar masses twirl around each other like pair-figure skaters. In some systems, the two stars are very far apart and barely interact with each other. In other cases, the stellar twins are intricately linked, whipping around each other quickly due to the force of gravity. Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have revealed that mature planetary systems — dusty disks of asteroids, comets and possibly planets –are more frequent around binary stars than single stars like our sun. That means sunsets like the one portrayed in this artist's photo concept, and more famously in the movie "Star Wars," might be quite commonplace in the universe. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This diagram illustrates that mature planetary systems like our own might be more common around twin, or binary, stars that are either really close together, or really far apart. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed that debris disks, which are signposts of mature planetary systems, are more abundant around the tightest and widest of binary stars it studied. Specifically, the infrared telescope found significantly more debris disks around binary stars that are 0 to 3 astronomical units apart (top panel) and 50 to 500 astronomical units apart (bottom panel) than binary stars that are 3 to 50 astronomical units apart (middle panel). The Spitzer data also revealed that debris disks circle all the way around both members of a close-knit binary (top panel), but only a single member of a wide duo (bottom panel). This could explain why the intermediately spaced binary systems (middle panel) can be inhospitable to planetary disks: they are too far apart to support one big disk around both stars, and they are too close together to have enough room for a disk around just one star. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ.of Ariz.
The Trapezium star cluster in the heart of the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years from Earth
The Submillimeter Array site of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory atop MaunaKea, Hawaii, is one of the six small, wide-field "HAT" telescopes that make up HATNet.Credit: HATNet
As a planet passes in front of its parent star, the brightness of thestar decreases.Credit: Hans Deeg
This image shows the light 'drop' due to a planet transit seen by COROT.The amount of light from the star reaching COROT decreases each time theplanet passes in front of the star itself.Credit: COROT exo-team
Laser vaporizes a diamond cell, inducing a shock wave that producespressures over 10 million times atmospheric pressure, greater than the pressure atEarth's core. The experiment was conducted at the Omega laser facility operated bythe University of Rochester in New York. Photo credit: Raymond Jeanloz/UC Berkeley.
This computer-generated animation begins with a rough map of the planet HD 189733b,as measured with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers obtained a series ofpole-to-pole strips in infrared light, then wrapped that map around a 3-d surface toshow what the planet looks like.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A full-globe map of the "hot Jupiter" planet HD 189733b. The map reveals a "hotspot" that is offset from the substellar point (high noon) by about 30 degrees. Theoffset may indicate jet stream winds of up to 6,000 mph. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Heather Knutson (CfA)
An artist's conception of HD 189733b, which some have dubbed the "Bulls-eye" planetbecause of the bright "hot spot" shown here. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
McDonald Observatory's Hobby-Eberly Telescope sits atop Mt. Fowlkes in the DavisMountains of West Texas. Credit: Marty Harris/McDonald Observatory
An artist's concept of the Neptune-sized planet GJ436b (right) orbitingan M dwarf star, Gliese 436, at a distance of only 3 million miles. Copyright: Lynnette Cook
IMAGE 2: orbit.jpgThe ice giant planet GJ436b is like a hot-Neptune that orbits Gliese 436every 2.6 days.Copyright: Lynnette Cook
Drawing of the predicted interior of an ice-giant planet like GJ436b orNeptune.Credit: Jason Wright/UC Berkeley
A structural comparison of solar type and red dwarf stars. A high resolution imageis available at click hereCredit: ESO
The MMT is operated by the MMT Observatory (MMTO), a joint venture of theSmithsonian Institution and the University of Arizona.Credit: Howard Lester, MMTO
The Very Large Telescope array (VLT) consists of four Unit Telescopes with mainmirrors of 8.2m diameter and four movable 1.8m diameter Auxiliary Telescopes.Credit: ESO
Dust orbits in a needle-shaped ring around the star HD 15115 in this Hubble SpaceTelescope image.Credit: NASA ESA UC Berkeley
This artist's concept illustrates a quadruple-star system.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Penn State astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a red dwarf star. It is the first planet discovered using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope.Credit: Penn State
The new planet orbits a star 300 light years from Earth, in the constellation Perseus. Perseus can be seen from the northern hemisphere of Earth and is named after the Greek hero who slew Medusa. Click image to enlarge.Credit: www.astronomy.com
The STARE telescope at the Observatorio del Teide, Canary Islands, Spain, is thethird telescope in the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey network and also played animportant role in identifying TrES-4.
A computer-generated image of TrES-4, with its host star on the right. The planet'shome star is bigger and hotter than the Sun, and is about ten times larger than theplanet. Astronomers speculate that the large size and low density of TrES-4 maycause a small fraction of its outer atmosphere to escape from the planet´gravitational pull and form an envelope, or a comet-like tail around the planet. Credit: Jeffrey Hall, Lowell Observatory.
Artist's concept of an Earth-like planet in an alien solar system. Credit: NASA/PlanetQuest.
This image represents planet "V 391 Pegasi b" as it survives the redgiant expansion of its dying sun. Credit: HELAS, the European Helio- and Asteroseismology Network.
The Whole Earth Telescope Project is a collection of telescopes aroundthe world that are run as a single instrument with many operators. Thenetwork was established in 1986 in order to obtain uninterruptedtime-series measurements of variable stars.Credit: WDRC / WET Project
Dust disk of AU Microscopii as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.High resolution image available at:ViewCredit: NASA
Dust disk of Fomalhaut as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Highresolution image available at: ViewCredit: NASA
Dust disk of Beta Pictoris as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Highresolution image available at: ViewCredit: NASA
Artist´ conception of an extrasolar planet with an orbiting moon. Credit:David A. Hardy, astroart.org (c) pparc.ac.uk
McDonald Observatory´ Hobby-Eberly Telescope sits atop Mt. Fowlkes in the Davis Mountains of West Texas.Credit: Marty Harris/McDonald Observatory
This artist's concept illustrates two planetary systems – 55 Cancri (top) and our own. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This artist's concept shows planets that orbit 55 Cancri, a star much like our own. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image depicts the orbit of the new planet discovered around 55 Cancri. Thegreen band marks the star's "habitable zone".Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Artist's rendition of a one-million-year-old star system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In June of 2001, the Optical Gravitation Lensing Experiment began its third phase(OGLE III). Since then, regular observations have been made at the Las CampanasObservatory in Chile.Credit: OGLE
Microlensing has led to the discovery of previous extrasolar planets. This is anexample of light curves produced from the microlensing event OGLE-2005-BLG-071. Atthe peak of the event there is a deviation from the expected light curve for theobserved star (which can be seen as a dip in the peak, and is shown in the imageinset). This deviation was used to detect a planet several times the size ofJupiter. Now the technique is being used to detect smaller and smaller planets.Credit: OGLE, MicroFUN, MOA, PLANET, and RoboNet sites.
NASA´ Kepler spacecraft will search for Earth-size planets around more than 100,000 stars. Credit: NASA
Mercury can be seen transiting the sun in this image captured by NASA´ Solar Optical telescope onboard the Japanese satellite Hinode.Credit: Hinode JAXA/NASA/PPARC
Engineers assemble Kepler´ primary mirror. Credit: Ball Aerospace
This is an image from the computer simulation of HL Tau and itssurrounding disk. In the model the dense clump (seen here at top right)forms with a mass of about 8 times that of Jupiter at a distance fromthe star about 75 times that from the Earth to the Sun. Image: Ken Rice (Royal Observatory Edinburgh), J. Greaves (St Andrews),A. Richards / T. Muxlow (Jodrell Bank)
This false color image is a map of the radio emission (at a wavelengthof 1.3 cm) emitted from the region around the star HL Tau. The candidateprotoplanet is marked 'b'. HL Tau is located in the centre of the image.The star is surrounded by a dusty disc tilted to the line of sight; onlythe inner part is visible here but its extent is indicated by the whiteellipse. The arrows show the direction of the jets of hot gas emitted as'overspill' from the star growth process. Image: J. Greaves (St Andrews) / T. Muxlow / A. Richards (Jodrell Bank),Ken Rice (Royal Observatory Edinburgh), VLA and Pie Town antenna
An object appears to be forming from gas and dust around the star AB Aurigae.Credit: The Lyot Project
Artist's conception of the newly discovered planet MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb orbiting its star.Credit: NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program
The gravitational microlensing technique detects stars that brighten when an object, such as a planet, passes directly in front of them. The gravity of the passing object acts like a lens that magnifies the star's light.Credit: Trent Schindler, National Science Foundation
Still image of AKR emissions fro Earth. To watch how the signals change over time, or to listen to Earth´ AKR, see: Click here.Credits: ESA
This Gemini image is the first picture taken of a likely planet orbitinga distant, sun-like star. The object (circled in red) is roughly 8 timesthe mass of Jupiter.Credit: Gemini Observatory
Credit: Bruce Macintosh
The new "planet" (right) is seen close to a relatively young star. Credit: UC Berkeley
Credit: UC Berkeley/GPI
A sequence of images showing how turbulent forces (the Coriolis Effect and vertical shear) mix up the layers of dust and gas orbiting young stars. Credit: San Francisco State University
With extrasolar planets now being directly imaged, searching for signs of life is on the horizon. Image credit: Bruce Macintosh
Splitting potentially habitable worlds into four categories may help astronomers to prioritise their searches. Image credit: Credit:NASA/JPL-CalTech
51 Ophiuchi´ double disks
51 Ophiuchi disk diagram
GJ 1214b 2
Young Planet Massive Star
Planet at Type B Star
ExoAtmosphere Measurements
Direct Images of Planets
Methane Free World
WASP12b being eaten
Upsilon Andromedae
Andromedae Oblique
Andromedae Polar
Beta Pictoris Planet
Dusty Protoplanetary Disk
Beta Pictoris Planet Image
HD209458b Storm
1RXS proper motion
HD 209458b
Sasselov Talk
HD 10180 Closeup
HD 10180 Planets
HD1035 Video
Keper-9 Planets
HR 8799 b
Volcanic moon
Destruction of Hot Jupiter
Gliese 581 g
Common center of mass
Beta Pictoris b
Andromedae b hotspot
Andromedae b graph
Andromedae b spot
Gleise Habitable Zone
Serpentis Planets
Planet Survey
extragalactic planet
extragalactic planet HIP 13044
GJ1214 planet
WASP-12b carbon
WASP-12b molecules
HR 8799 System
Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect
HAT-P-11 Illustration
Kepler 11
Kepler 11 system
T Cha planet
White dwarf world
Red Dwarf planets
sun-like star and planet
Gliese 667 multiple stars
Night sky Spring 2011
Kepler Objects
climate model Gliese 581d
surface temps Gliese 581d
Lonely planet
Kepler discoveries
hypothetical exoplanet
Kepler-10 system
Kepler dipping starlight
Fomalhaut b oribiting
planets around a binary star
Dark Matter planets
Hat-P-7b artist impression
55 Cancri e
atmosphere of a planet
icy/rocky planet orbiting a red dwarf
planet orbiting HD 209458
Kepler worlds
Kepler-19c 'Invisible world'
HD 85512 closeup
HD 85512 planet
super-Earth HD 85512 b
CoRoT-2a planet
CoRoT-2b exotic effects
Kepler planets
formed planet
Kepler-16b, circumbinary planet
Kepler-16b double sunsets
two Saturn-sized planets
Sun-like star and exoplanet
Planet Hunting on the web
Undetected planet
Kepler discoveries animation
Kepler 10b
Journey to the Exoplanets
Kepler-18 planets
HR 8799 from Hubble
three planets orbiting HR 8799
HR 8799 illustration
planet CaLk 15b
LkCa 15
location of LkCa 15
WD 0806-661 B faint object
WD 0806-661 B artist impression
WD 0806-661 B artist impression 2
Ejected planet from the Solar System
Evolution of giant planets
Kepler field over Kitt Peak
periodic table of exoplanets
Kepler-22 comparison
Neptune-sized planet around Gliese 436
Earth-sized planets
Kepler 20e
two hot Earth-sized planets
Kepler 16 habitable zone
Common planets in the Milky Way
Small planetary system
Chart of smallest exoplanets
KOI-961 planetary system
Habitable planet by David A. Aguilar
Earth and 55 Cancri e
Kepler's Planetary Systems, Jan. 2012
Kepler's Planetary Systems' Orbits
spectrum from HR 8799
Light curve from HD 189733
Carnegie Planet Finder
Tilted planet
A dust disks around a star
Theoretical model depicting planets shaping
PIAA coronagraph
Upsilon Andromedae d
HR 8799 Spectrum
GJ1214b super-Earth
nomad object
Kepler Planet Candidates by Size, Feb. 27, 2012
Laser frequency comb results
Runaway planet
Sunset on Gliese 667 Cc
HIP 11952 and planets
Kepler Explorer app
Kepler Explorer
Metallicity for Earth-like planet formation
Non-coplanar orbits
Captured world
four terrestrial planets
Host star with Hydrogen
White dwarf and remnant planetary system
Direct light from a super Earth
Data from 55 Cancri e
Predicted planet 'c'
Data from KOI-872
Planet to dust
Planet with comet tail
Sedna at the outer edges
Microlensing nomad planets
Gliese 581d artist impression
Planet KELT-1b
Exoplanet HD 189733b
Ultra-short period planet
Evaporation of HD 189733b
HD 157728 images
Project 1640 instrument
UCF-1.01 illustration
Five known potentially habitable worlds
Relative size and orbits Gliese 581
Hot Earth-like atmosphere
Supergiant engulfing a planet
KIC 12557548 lightcurve
Sharing the Light of Two Suns
Orbiting in the Habitable Zone of Two Suns
The planets Kepler-47b and Kepler-47c
Gas giant HIP 13044b
Rocky planet Kepler 20e
Gliese 163c
Gliese 163 in false-color
Gliese 163 location
Eccentric Habitable Zones
Planet fingerprint
Planet with starry skies
Beehive star cluster
55 Cancri e interior
Star map showing 55 Cancri
Artist's illustration of PH1
Family portrait of the PH1 system
Protoplanetary disk around PDS 70
Artist's rendition of PDS 70
Young brown dwarf companion
Free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9
Kappa Andromedae system
Planets at Tau Ceti
An image of the disk around SAO 206462
Comparison of the theoretical model and observational data of the disk around SAO 206462
How interaction between a protoplanetary disk and planet makes a density wave and affects the disk's structure
Young star HD 142527
Observations of the young star HD 142527
Kepler planet candidates as of January 7, 2013
Fraction of stars with at least one planet and their sizes relative to Earth.
Sizes of Kepler planet candidates as of Jan 2013
View from a moon around planet PH2b
Brown dwarf 2MASSJ22282889-431026
An illustration of the brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026
Orbital motion of the planet Fomalhaut b
Artist's conception of two extrasolar moons
Artist's rendition of the HAT-P-7 system
HAT-P-7 and its companion star
An artist's image of Kepler-16b
Binary system Kepler-47
Gas and dust disk around the young star TW Hydrae
Habitable zone distances around various types of stars
Earth and a cross-section of a super-Earth
super-Earth 55 Cancri e and the Earth
Hypothetical habitable planet with two moons orbiting a red dwarf star
Red dwarf star erupts
Graph of red dwarf stars
Monitoring stars with two transiting planets
A Moon-size Line Up
Planet dubbed Kepler-37b
Gas giant planet around HD 100546
HD100546 candidate protoplanet
Irradiation habitable zone
Ringed gas giant and its moon
Periodic plunges into darkness
Four planets in HR 8799 planetary system
Starlight on planets relative to sunlight on the Earth
Representation of the 'transit' detection method
Potentially habitable worlds discovered by the Kepler mission (April 2012)
Artist's rendering of the planetary system HR 8799
One of the discovery images of the HR 8799 system
Super-Earth planet Gliese 667C c
Kepler's planetary discoveries as of last January 2012
The transit of an exoplanet
Exoplanet seen from its moon
Kepler 62 solar system comparison
The radial velocity method
Observing an exoplanet atmosphere
View of a planetary system seen from Kepler-62f
Planet where one side faces its star
Young, red dwarf star surrounded by three planets
Gliese multi-planet system
Transition zone in Antarctica
Habitable worlds
The super-Earth Kepler 62f
Naming and categorizing planets
Habitability study, Vladilo et al. 2013
So-called "habitable exoplanets"
Exoplanet discovery data
One attempt to classify exoplanets
An Astronomer's Fantasy: Planets in the Lab
Project 1640 planetary Family Portrait
Kepler-76b, Einstein's planet
Kepler-76b's orbit around a yellow-white, type F star
First rocky world discovered by NASA's Kepler mission
Kepler-10b is a scorched world
Relations between the spectral type of main-sequence stars
Earth-sized planets orbiting KOI 55
Super-Earths will be found around low mass, red dwarf stars
Planet HD95086 b, next to its parent star.
This chart shows the position of the young star HD 95086 in the southern constellation of Carina (The Keel). Most of the stars that are visible to the unaided eye from a clear and dark site are shown.
Sky around the young star HD 95086
Gap in a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas whirling around the nearby red dwarf star TW Hydrae
Artist impression of Super-Earth "GJ3470b".
How to observe the atmosphere of transit planet
Observation data of the transit of exoplanet GJ3470b taken by two telescopes of OAO, NAOJ. (Credit: NAOJ)
Artist's conception of the seven planets possibly found orbiting Gliese 667C. Three of them (c, f and e) orbit within the habitable zone of the star. Image is courtesy of Rene Heller.
In the star cluster NGC 6811, astronomers have found two planets smaller than Neptune orbiting Sun-like stars.
An artist's impression of a hot Jupiter close to its star
A planet with clouds and surface water orbits a red dwarf star
Simulated cloud coverage (white) on a tidally locked planet (blue)
Artist's rendering of a possible exoplanetary system with a gas-giant planet orbiting close to his parent star which is more massive than our sun
The relative size of the Earth and Sun next to those of HD 97658 (the star) and HD 97658b (the super-Earth exoplanet).Credit: Jason Eastman and Diana Dragomir
This illustration shows HD 189733b, a huge gas giant that orbits very close to its host star HD 189733. The planet's atmosphere is scorching with a temperature of over 1000 degrees Celsius, and it rains glass, sideways, in howling 7000 kilometre-per-hour winds.
This plot compares the colours of Solar System planets to the colour of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b.
Gas mass for several debris disk systems
Exoplanet with two moons orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star
This artist's concept shows a Super Venus planet on the left, and a Super Earth on the right
Planet in binary star system
Light received in a binary system
This graphic depicts HD 189733b
Exoplanet GJ 504 b
Subaru image of exoplanet GJ 504 b
Artist's concept of a planet orbiting a pulsar
Stopping a migrating planets
Artist impression of Kepler 78b. Credit: MIT/Cristina Sanchis Ojeda
HD 52265 and its orbiting Jupiter-like planet
An artist's impression of a trio of super-earths. These three represent the planets found around the star HD 40307. Image: ESO
The mass–radius diagram developed by David Kipping, Dimitar Sasselov and David Spiegel. The blue line is the boundary condition for a 100 percent water-world. The blue dashed line is a planet with 75 percent water and 25 percent silicate rock, while the brown line is 100 percent iron and the brown dashed line is 75 percent iron and 25 percent silicate rock. Image: Kipping et al.
An artist's impression of the super-earth GJ 1214b orbiting close to its star. Astronomers have studied its atmosphere with both the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. Image: David A Aguilar (CfA)
Artist's rendition of a transit of GJ 1214 b in blue light. The blue sphere represents the host star GJ 1214, and the black ball in front of it on the right is GJ 1214 b. Credit: NAOJ
Artist's rendition of the relationship between the composition of the atmosphere and transmitted colors of light. Top: If the sky has a clear, upward-extended, hydrogen-dominated atmosphere, Rayleigh scattering disperses a large portion of the blue light from the atmosphere of the host while it scatters less of the red light. As a result, a transit in blue light becomes deeper than the one in red light. Middle: If the sky has a less extended, water-rich atmosphere, the effect of the Rayleigh scattering is much weaker than in a hydrogen-dominated atmosphere. In this case, transits in all colors have almost the same transit depths. Bottom: If the sky has extensive clouds, most of the light cannot be transmitted through the atmosphere, even though hydrogen dominates it. As a result, transits in all colors have almost the same transit depths. Credit: NAOJ
A super-Earth basks in the glow of its star in this artist's impression
Earth on the left and an artist's impression of a super-Earth on the right.
Basic schematic of a planetary transit. Instruments can register starlight passing through the planet's atmosphere that reveals the presence of certain gases
Exoplanets transit their star in this artist's impression.
Artist impressions of a variety of super-Earths
Kepler-7b (left), which is 1.5 times the radius of Jupiter (right), is the first exoplanet to have its clouds mapped. The cloud map was produced using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes.
The smallest of several planets in the 55 Cancri system, the former 'diamond planet' is seen orbiting its host star at very close range in this artist's impression. A nearby brown dwarf with its own 'miniature' planetary system is pictured as well.
Artist's conception of PSO J318.5-22.
Multicolor image from the Pan-STARRS1 telescope of the free-floating planet PSO J318.5-22
Artist impression of a rocky and water-rich asteroid being torn apart by the strong gravity of the white dwarf star GD 61. Similar objects in the Solar System likely delivered the bulk of water on Earth and represent the building blocks of the terrestrial planets. Credit: Image copyright Mark A. Garlick, space-art.co.uk, University of Warwick and University of Cambridge.
A galaxy filled with exoplanets.
A "Periodic Table of Exoplanets" Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo
Exoplanet discoveries by year as of October 2013, color coded by method. Blue=radial velocity, Green=transiting, Yellow=timing, Red=direct imaging, Orange=microlensing.
The Kepler-56 planetary system
This artist's concept illustrates the fate of two different planets: the one on the top is similar to Earth, made up largely of silicate-based rocks with oceans coating its surface. The one on the bottom is rich in carbon — and dry. Chances are low that life as we know it, which requires liquid water, would thrive under such barren conditions. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The mass of a planet with an extremely short orbital period has been identified. Pictured is an artist's rendition of the exoplanet Gliese 436b, with a slightly longer orbit around its star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Total planet candidates identified by Kepler (categorized by size) as of November 2013. Credit: NASA
From the first three years of Kepler data, more than 3,500 potential worlds have emerged. Since the last update in January, the number of planet candidates identified by Kepler increased by 29 percent and now totals 3,538, analysis led by Jason Rowe, a SETI research scientist.Image Credit: SETI
Artist's impression of the Gliese 667C system. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Artist's impression of Kepler-62f, a potential super-Earth in its star's habitable zone. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech.
Chart of star temperature vs. stellar flux showing position of planets. Credit: Chester Harman/Penn State
Comparison of KOI-351 with the Solar System. Credit: DLR
Comparison of the planetary system KOI-351 with all known planetary systems with five or more transiting planets. Credit: DLR
This is a discovery image of planet HD 106906 b in thermal infrared light from MagAO/Clio2, processed to remove the bright light from its host star, HD 106906 A. The planet is more than 20 times farther away from its star than Neptune is from our Sun. AU stands for Astronomical Unit, the average distance of the Earth and the Sun. Image Credit: Vanessa Bailey
NASA scientists found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets orbiting three different stars. All five planets appear to be hazy. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, ESA, A. Mandell (Goddard Space Flight Center), and D. Deming (University of Maryland, College Park)
Artist impression of the Kepler-88 system, Credit: Alexandre Santerne (CAUP)/ESO/Serge Brunier
Picture of the dome of the 1.93-m telescope of Haute-Provence Observatory (France) which hosts the SOPHIE spectrograph, with the Kepler field-of-view. Credit: Alexandre Santerne (CAUP)
Reading an exoplanet's atmosphere from the spectra of light that passes through it. Image Credit: ESA
Artist's impression of a planetary transit, and the resulting dip in the light curve. Image Credit: NASA
Artist's impression of HD189733b after the discovery of its blue color by Berdyugina et al. (2011) using polarimetry. Image Credit: Darya Rioa
The layers of Earth's atmosphere. What might the layers of an exoplanet's atmosphere be like? Image credit: Kelvinsong
This image shows an artist's view of exoplanet GJ 1214b. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI-PRC14-06
This rendering shows the size of GJ 1214b and another, larger exoplanet compared to Earth and Neptune. Credit: NASA & ESA, STScI-PRC14-06b
Chart of Kepler planet candidates as of January 2014.Image Credit: NASA Ames
KOI-314c, shown in this artist's conception, is the lightest planet to have both its mass and physical size measured. Surprisingly, although the planet weighs the same as Earth, it is 60 percent larger in diameter, meaning that it must have a very thick, gaseous atmosphere. It orbits a dim, red dwarf star (shown at left) about 200 light-years from Earth. KOI-314c interacts gravitationally with another planet, KOI-314b (shown in the background), causing transit timing variations that allow astronomers to measure the masses of both worlds. This serendipitous discovery resulted from analysis as part of the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) project. Credit: C. Pulliam & D. Aguilar (CfA)
Exoplanet Hunters at La Silla
The Galactic Centre above the ESO 3.6-metre telescope
The Milky Way over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope
Star trails over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope
Artist's Impression of An Exoplanet Orbiting a Star in the Cluster Messier 67
Possible planets of the Gliese 581 system, superimposed on a picture of our own solar system to compare orbital distances. Credit: National Science Foundation/Zina Deretsky
The atmosphere of exoplanet HD 189733b streams away at speeds of 300,000 mph, according to observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab
What the day side of a tidally locked exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf might look like, given atmospheric carbon dioxide levels similar to modern-day Earth. On the top, white represents ice while blue represents open water; on the bottom, colors represent surface air temperatures. The first of the bottom images represents a computer model that does not take ocean heat flow into account; the last image does take such heat flow into account. Credit: Yongyun Hu
An Earthlike moon orbiting a gas giant host planet. Credit: NASA
Dust and gas disk around HD142527
Disk around HD142527 observed by ALMA
Dwarf planet Ceres is located in the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, as illustrated in this artist's conception. Observations by the Herschel space observatory between 2011 and 2013 find that the dwarf planet has a thin water vapor atmosphere. This is the first unambiguous detection of water vapor around an object in the asteroid belt. ESA/ATG medialab
This is an artist impression of the star Kepler-410A. The black dot represents the planet Kepler-410A b, as it moves in front of the star, blocking a small part of the star light and thereby allowing it to be indirectly detected. The stellar companion Kepler-410B is about 10,000 times further away from the planet and is not shown on the image. Credit: Vincent Van Eylen
An artist's image of Kepler-35, where a Saturn-size planet orbits a pair of sun-like stars. Such systems could host an exomoon within the habitable zone of the stars. Credit: Lior Taylor
Artist rendition of a brown dwarf. credit ESO
brown dwarf credit ESO
This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars. Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI
An artist's impression of an exoplanet orbiting the well-known, nearby F-type main sequence star Procyon, the brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor. Credit: www.redorbit.com
PLATO will observe one million stars to find Earth-like exoplanets.© MPS/ Mark A. Garlick
This is what the planet-hunter PLATO could look like. The image shows a concept presented by Thales Alenis Space. © ESA
The artist concept depicts multiple-transiting planet systems, which are stars with more than one planet. The planets eclipse or transit their host star from the vantage point of the observer. This angle is called edge-on.Image Credit: NASA
The histogram shows the number of planets by size for all known exoplanets. The blue bars on the histogram represents all the exoplanets known, by size, before the Kepler Planet Bonanza announcement on Feb. 26, 2014. The gold bars on the histogram represent Kepler's newly-verified planets.Image Credit: NASA Ames/W Stenzel
The histogram shows the number of planet discoveries by year for roughly the past two decades of the exoplanet search. The blue bar shows previous planet discoveries, the red bar shows previous Kepler planet discoveries, the gold bar displays the 715 new planets verified by multiplicity.Image Credit: NASA Ames/SETI/J Rowe
Artist's rendition of Kepler spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Kepler mission/Wendy Stenzel
Tau Boötis is a yellow-white dwarf star and is roughly 51 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Bootes the Herdsman. Credit: Torsten Bronger, Wikimedia
The mass of the initial rocky core determines whether the final planet is potentially habitable. On the top row of the diagram, the core has a mass of more than 1.5 times that of the Earth. The result is that it holds on to a thick atmosphere of hydrogen (H), deuterium (H2) and helium (He). The lower row shows the evolution of a smaller mass core, between 0.5 and 1.5 times the mass of the Earth. It holds on to far less of the lighter gases, making it much more likely to develop an atmosphere suitable for life. Credit: NASA / H. Lammer. Click for a full resolution image
Artist's impression of a planet orbiting a red dwarf star. Credit: Neil Cook, University of Hertfordshire
Architectural visualization of the new systems. Credit: Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Queen Mary University of London
The ALMA image of carbon monoxide around Beta Pictoris (above) can be deprojected (below) to simulate a view looking down on the system, revealing the large concentration of gas in its outer reaches. For comparison, orbits within the solar system are shown for scale. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) and NASA Goddard/F. Reddy
An artist's concept of an exoplanet, or planet outside the solar system. Credit: NASA
Artist's conception of Kepler-47, a system with planets orbiting two suns. Studying how Jupiter affects Earth's habitability could have implication for exoplanets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
Detecting water vapor in gas giants is just one step along the way to understanding water transport in exoplanetary systems. Credit: NASA
An artist's conception of Kepler-69c, one of the smallest planets ever found in the habitable zone of a star. Credit: NASA
The Automated Planet Finder (APF) is the newest telescope at UC's Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. (Photo by Laurie Hatch)
UCSC astronomer Steve Vogt, seen here with the APF dome in the background, led the $12 million APF project. (Photo by Laurie Hatch)
Artist's impression of debris around a white dwarf star. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and G. Bacon (STScI).
Artist's impression of a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star. The new work shows that similar rubble around many white dwarfs contaminates these stars with rocky material and water. Credit: NASA-JPL / Caltech / T. Pyle (SSC)
A video still showing an artist's impression of an alien "Earth." Still image from video. Credit: Kepler/NASA
This artist's conception depicts a planet/moon pairing. This is one possible explanation for the recent observations. If the moon scenario is true, the moon would weigh less than Earth, and the planet would be more massive than Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This artist's conception depicts a second possibility for the observations – a star/planet pairing. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The artist's concept depicts Kepler-186f , the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone. Image Credit: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech
The diagram compares the planets of our inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet star system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The five planets of Kepler-186 orbit an M dwarf, a star that is is half the size and mass of the sun. Image Credit: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech
Artist's conception of a protoplanetary disc. Credit: University of Copenhagen/Lars Buchhave
One aim of examining protoplanetary discs is to understand how complex molecules formed and changed during their evolution. Credit: NASA/FUSE/Lynette Cook
Disks of debris detected around young stars using the new technique. The top row represents the images themselves. The bottom row is an artist's illustration of how those disks might appear, oriented against a background starfield. Image Credit: ASA/ESA, R. Soummer, Ann Feild (STScI)
The light that NICMOS sees. Image Credit: The Hubble Space Institute, NASA and STScI
Planets are believed to form and sweep aside the dust in their embryonic disks. Image Credit: The Hubble Space Institute, NASA and STScI
The Subaru Telescope captured this near infrared image of the protoplanetary disk around PDS 70. Credit: NAOJ


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Former actor on MTV's faux reality show "the Hills" Spencer Pratt explained that fear of being ignored drove him to ditch his wife, Heidi Montag.
"We love each other but I'm a famewhore and I'll never grow out of it," Pratt told People. "Heidi knows that and doesn't want that."
Pratt said the two had different philosophies on the meaning of 'good press.'
"I want every kind of press," Pratt told People. "She believes in bad press. There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully."
He said that the couple's divergent views on the right kind of media exposure are nothing new.
"It's been a constant battle since we got married," Pratt said. The couple exchanged vows last spring, an experience their fans were able to follow via Montag's Twitter updates. Pratt said while Heidi's love for social media dimmed, his continued to burn brightly.
"She would be like, 'Are you really Tweeting that? Are you really doing that?'" he told People.
Spencer says he is moving forward with his Heidi-less life with a new look. "I've already gone for the blonde, spiky-haired look," he said. "Now I'm going for the Hollywood producer look."
Pratt, who's other acting credits include playing himself in "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" has new life goals outside of the small screen.
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The dynamic behavior of railway tracks with under sleeper pads, finite-element boundary-element model calculations, laboratory tests and field measurements (2014)
A variety of isolation measures exists to reduce the vibration in the neighbourhood of railway lines. They can be roughly classified as elastic or stiffening systems. There are the following elastic elements, rail pads or resilient fixation systems between rail and sleeper, under sleeper pads or sleeper shoes under the sleepers, and ballast mats under the ballast. Stiffening systems (plates) are used as slab tracks, floating slab tracks, or mass-spring systems. In the EU project "Railway induced vibration abatement solutions (RIVAS)", elastic under sleeper pads have been investigated. The dynamic behaviour of the track and the surrounding soil has been calculated by the combined finite-element boundary-element method in a systematic parameter study. It has been shown that the mitigation effect can be improved by soft under sleeper pads or by heavy sleepers. Consequently, such track elements (soft under sleeper pads and heavy sleepers) have been thoroughly investigated in laboratory tests to establish the static and dynamic parameters as well as their serviceability. Finally, field tests at and near railway tracks with and without under sleeper pads have been performed. To determine the reduction effect of the isolated track, the ground vibrations excited by trains or artificial sources have been measured. The soil properties at the different sites have also been measured so that the comparison of the isolated and un-isolated track can take into account possible differences of the soil parameters. The contribution shows how the different (numerical, laboratory and field) methods and results can be combined to achieve an improved mitigation solution with soft under sleeper pads and heavy sleepers for ballasted and slab tracks.


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Christina Aguilera Welcomes Baby Girl
It's a girl for Christina Aguilera!
The 33-year-old singer gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday, Aug. 16, according to Us Weekly. Aguilera underwent a C-section at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
This is the first child for Aguilera and Rutler as a couple. Aguilera also has a 6-year-old son, Max, with her ex-husband Jordan Bratman.
Aguilera and fiance Matthew Rutler first announced that they were expecting a baby girl back in March, just weeks after they announced their engagement on Valentine's Day 2014.
It will be a busy year for Aguilera: In addition to caring for two children now, she is also working on an eighth studio album. She is also expected to return to the judges chair for Season 8 of 'The Voice,' which will air in spring 2015. Gwen Stefani is filling in for Aguilera for Season 7, which premieres in September.
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Selling pressures prevailed on Tuesday as investors fretted over commentary from the latest FOMC meeting. Stocks took a nose dive lower after Chairman Bernanke made no direct hints of more stimulus to come. With no word on QE3, investors were quick to take profits across virtually every asset class; stocks and bonds both plunged lower alongside falling gold prices [see also 3 ETFs For The End Of Operation Twist].
Investors will turn their attention overseas later today as the European Central Bank announces its decision regarding interest rates. Although analysts are anticipating for the rate to remain unchanged at 1%, the economic commentary following the decision itself could lead to volatile trading for the popular iShares MSCI EMU Index Fund (EZU). This ETF, which tracks the performance of equity markets of countries who have adopted the euro as their currency, could see an increase in trading volumes as investors digest the latest news out of the debt burdened currency bloc [see also 3 ETF Trades For The Next Euro Zone Debt Crisis].
Chart Analysis
This ETF has been gradually marching higher since bottoming out at $25.57 a share on 9/23/2011; in fact, its support near the $26 level bears a close resemble to a triple-bottom pattern. Notice how EZU bounced off the $26 level on 9/23, 10/4, and most recently again on 11/25/2011. Although EZU hasn't staged an impressive run-up in 2012 like many other equity ETFs, this fund appears to be on slow and steady path to recovery given its positive momentum and the tremendous support it has established above the $26 mark [see also Euro Free Europe ETFdb Portfolio].
Establishing a long position at current levels may be appealing seeing as how EZU recently broke above its 200-day moving average (yellow line); this could be interpreted as bullish evidence, perhaps suggesting that EZU is in the beginning phase of an uptrend. Investors should be aware of potential resistance at $34 a share as this ETF failed to summit this level back on 10/27/2011.
If the European Central Bank issues an upbeat economic commentary following the interest rate decision, European equity markets could stage a rally. In terms of upside, if EZU resumes its uptrend, the next level of resistance comes in at the $34 level for this ETF. On the other hand, a pessimistic outlook could put a dent in stock markets [see EZU Realtime Rating]. Likewise, EZU may find itself struggling to stay afloat if selling pressures accumulate. The first level of support for this ETF comes in at the 200-day moving average (yellow line) followed by the $30 level. As always, investors of all experience levels are advised to use stop-loss orders and practice disciplined profit taking techniques.
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Angela F., author of the blog A Survivor's Guide to Huntington's Disease?, learned on November 8 that she had tested positive for the genetic defect that causes Huntington's disease. She asked me: "I am curious about how you coped when you got your results. How did you pull yourself back together to get on with life again?" Angela was especially upset – as I was – that her geneticist had told her she could do "nothing" to avoid the onset of HD.
I had to face the news of Huntington's disease tests three times in just a little more than four years.
First, on the day after Christmas in 1995, I learned the explanation for my mother's decline: a positive test for HD. (Ever since then, the holidays bring the stark reminder of how the threat of this disease has penetrated into every part of our lives and all of our discussions about the future.) The news came as a complete shock – especially because I learned that I had a 50-50 chance of inheriting HD.
Like many people, I had no knowledge of Huntington's disease. I immediately called my mother's geneticist back in my hometown to get more information.
Considering the news
I told him that I wanted to get tested immediately. But he cautioned me to take my time and to consider all of the consequences, including the danger of being denied insurance coverage. I contacted the head of the local chapter of the Huntington's Disease Society of America (HDSA), a woman whose mother also had HD. She further counseled against a rash decision about the test. I began researching HD, especially the news of potential treatments, and I attended the next HDSA support group meeting, where I met other people at risk and, for the first time in my life, saw a group of individuals severely affected by the disease.
For the next three and a half years, I attended as many support group meetings as possible. I heard one scientist give a presentation on coenzyme Q-10, a supplement thought to be potentially effective against HD, and I started taking it. I listened to at-risk people tell of their wrenching decisions to test or not to test. I volunteered for the local chapter of HDSA, helping at fundraising events and dedicating increasing amounts of time to other activities.
This was my rational side in action. It was my way of fighting back and answering that inner voice that kept telling me, "You must do something!"
Emotions take over
However, as much as I unconsciously tried to cover them up, my emotions began to take over. A complex mixture of overwhelming fear and powerful denial regulated my life in the first few years after learning about HD.
On the one hand, I felt my life changing forever because of the possible onslaught of dementia and chorea, the shaking movements of HD. One night not long after the news about my mother, my wife and I lay in bed discussing HD. She held me tighter than ever before.
On the other hand, I became reckless in my pursuit of professional success and pleasure. Over a year, I took a big professional risk by focusing on a project that would bring me more immediate satisfaction and a shot at glory. That project kept me from confronting HD more seriously. I devoted very little time and effort to other parts of my life, including my relationship with my wife. My passion for life ran wild, but often in the wrong direction. Instead of solidifying what was most important in my life, I tried to escape into dreams of grandiosity. Because HD loomed as a specter in my life, I wanted to pack in as many experiences as I could before falling ill.
Throughout this period I put the question of testing for HD in the background. At the HDSA support group and from my readings, I learned that ignorance could be bliss. Living without the knowledge of my status was better than having to face the rest of my life knowing that I would die a long and horrible death caused by HD. I preferred not to play the 50-50 odds that I might have the genetic defect. After all, there was no cure or treatment for HD, so why suffer beforehand?
Facing the inevitable
I probably would have remained untested if it were not for the growing pressure from my wife to have a baby. Because of our careers we had not seriously talked of children in the early years of our marriage. But in 1998 and 1999, after the new stresses of my at-risk status had complicated our relationship and further caused us to delay having children, she gave me an ultimatum: have a child or end the marriage.
Agreeing to have a child was like a cold shower of reality. My at-risk status meant that our child could inherit HD from me. We absolutely wanted to avoid this, because we did not think we could withstand the pain of raising a child at risk for this horrible disease.
It was an especially gruesome possibility because of a particular twist in the genetics of HD: in the process of conception a man, unlike a woman, can pass on a worse version of the genetic defect to the child than he himself has.
Because of this, in some HD families the children actually get the disease much earlier than the age of onset of their fathers. My wife stated unequivocally that she did not want to care for both a husband and a child stricken with Huntington's disease.
Wanting to conceive
We began to steel ourselves for the possibilities. One was preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), a new procedure in which an embryo is tested for HD in a test tube and is then implanted in the womb. PGD would have allowed us to have a baby without HD and, if I wished, I could avoid knowing whether I actually had the defect.
However, to obtain PGD we would have had to spend many weeks in distant Washington, D.C. and far more money than we could afford: $100,000. (PGD has since dropped to about one-tenth of that cost and is now available in other parts of the country.) PGD was out of the question, and there was no guarantee the embryo would develop successfully.
Another option involved testing the fetus in the womb. If the baby did not have HD, I could still continue with the ignorance of my own status. However, if it did have HD, I would know for sure that I too would get the disease.
The third option was logistically the simplest and cheapest, but emotionally the hardest: I could get the test before we checked the fetus. If I tested negative, we could forget about Huntington's ever affecting our own family. However, if I tested positive, we would immediately have to deal with my results and prepare to test the fetus in the womb.
A tough choice
I decided on the third option. I was 39 and felt life passing quickly, and if I were ever to become a father, it would be then and with my wife. I also tapped into a reserve of bravery and stoicism that I inherited from my father. (He ultimately cared for my mother every day for more than ten years before she died on February 13 of this year.) And so I began preparing for the news of a second Huntington's disease test.
It was the spring of 1999. A sense of calm and resoluteness overtook me. Most people go through counseling and a specific protocol for getting tested, but I skipped parts of this process. I had my own very effective therapist and, with my experience at the HDSA chapter support group, was already familiar with the issues involved in testing.
We also had a very intelligent, level-headed, experienced, and compassionate geneticist who carefully explained all of the details of the testing process and patiently answered all of our questions. Looking back on it, I think I handled quite well the weeks preceding my test results.
Gathering for the results
The day of the results began like any other, but as we approached the hour its momentousness weighed like a millstone around our necks. My wife, who was my official support person, and I drove to the office where we were to receive the results. We tried to keep an upbeat attitude until the very last minute. She and I sat together on one side of the table, holding hands on the table, while the geneticist and a counselor sat on the other side. My wife was convinced that I would test negative. One of my best friends thought so too. We were looking forward to a celebration and getting on with our lives.
The geneticist this day was very businesslike, objective, and maybe even detached. His job could be very unpleasant, this revealing of a person's future in few sentences, as if he were reading someone's palm or tarot cards. He needed to be professional and to maintain a respectful distance. He stated that we were gathered to receive the results of my test. Without pause he began to read the results rather quickly and without hint as to what the results would be.
In Huntington's disease everything hinges on the number of CAG repeats that a person has on the gene called huntingtin. (CAG repeats refer to the sequence of three nucleotide bases – cytosine, adenine, and guanine, building blocks of DNA – on the DNA molecule.) Everybody has this gene, but it usually has only 20 or fewer CAG repeats. My mother had twice as many, and that is what caused her to start having symptoms of HD in her late forties.
When the geneticist read the results for the first allele (an alternate form of a gene, for example, alleles for eye color, hair color, etc.), which came from my father, it was in the normal range. I gained a great sense of expectation, and I could sense that my wife was beginning to let out a sigh of relief.
All we needed to hear was the number "20" one more time.
The reading for the second allele, which came from my mother, was …
Everything changes
40. It is a number stamped in our memories and in every cell of my body, slowly but surely wreaking havoc in my brain cells and leading to the moment when I will become like my mother.
40. It's part of the primer we give to people unfamiliar with HD.
40. It's like a code for everything my wife and I have discussed and suffered over the past eleven years of dealing with HD.
40. Would the child we wanted also have to live with this number, or, because I was a man, an even higher one?
40. I was almost at that age, the prime of a typical adulthood, but mine was not to be that.
After hearing the results, we were speechless and suddenly drained of energy. It reminds me of the day my childhood best friend died in a car accident just days before his high school graduation. I collapsed in a chair and cried.
On that day in 1999, we were clearly shaken. I am a very careful driver, but as I pulled our new car out of the space in the parking garage, I unintentionally scraped the right front fender against a column. My wife became scared. We had just learned that I could die of a debilitating brain disease, and here, out of fear and anxiety, I was already acting erratically.
But we did not cry. We remained determined to move ahead with our lives and our plans to start a family.
Moving forward
The geneticist had helped a lot by leaving us with words he would repeat on other occasions: "a positive test is not a diagnosis for the disease." I was gene-positive, but I did not yet have any noticeable symptoms. That phrase has often given me hope in moments of fear.
For the next few weeks we solemnly went on with our lives. Like a shaman trying to preserve the life of a patient, my wife filmed me as I spoke about the test results, my fears, and my hopes for the future.
My positive result required us to think about a third HD test. My wife was already pregnant, so we began to make plans for testing the fetus in the womb. In July, however, she had a miscarriage. It was a devastating experience, especially for her, but I have always looked back on it as possibly a fortunate one, because I suspect that baby was positive for HD.
By October of 1999 my wife was pregnant again. We met with the geneticist once again to map out a strategy for testing the fetus.
It was a very complex affair. For fear of losing health coverage in the future or jeopardizing the purchase of other types of insurance, we had not mentioned HD to representatives of my health plan.
A tragic irony
This is one of the great and tragic ironies of living at risk for a devastating brain disease. The insurance one pays for often cannot be used because of the deep fear and very real possibility of suffering discrimination.
Our geneticist worked with the local Huntington's disease clinic but not our health plan. My HD test was done anonymously at that clinic. But the HD clinic could not conduct the amniocentesis necessary for drawing the genetic material to be used for testing our baby for HD. Luckily, two things worked in our favor. The geneticist had a contact at the health plan, and that person arranged for my wife to have a standard amniocentesis done to check for Down's syndrome. The lab that tested for this happened to be the same lab where the geneticist worked and tested genetic material for HD, so when the sample came over for Down's syndrome screening, the geneticist also prepared to test it for HD. The health plan would get the Down's syndrome results, which were negative, but only we and the geneticist would learn the results of the HD test.
Working around the health bureaucracy was a harrowing experience, but nearly as much as what we now faced. My wife was already sixteen weeks into the pregnancy when the amniocentesis was performed. The HD test, however, would take place only several weeks later, after the lab had been able to grow the genetic material sufficiently so that a reading for Huntington's disease could be obtained. The results would come when the pregnancy was already nearing the fifth month.
Facing abortion
And what would we do if our little daughter-to-be were positive?
My wife and I had started debating this question even before I received my test results. During the pregnancy it paralyzed her emotionally, because she could not fully commit to a baby whom we might abort because of a positive test for HD. Every night as I put my hand on my wife's stomach and talked with her about the new life growing inside of her, a wave of fear and uncertainty overtook us.
We are both Catholic and do not like abortion, but we also believe in a family's right to choose. My wife insisted again that she did not want to take care of two HD patients. If the baby tested positive, she wanted to have an abortion. I understood her concerns but wanted us to await the results first.
My result of 40 CAG repeats once again impinged on our lives. I argued that if the baby had 40 repeats like me, we should go ahead with the pregnancy. Why should we deny life to a child who would probably live as long as I had, then 39, without symptoms? Surely, I argued, treatments or even a cure would be found by the time she grew up.
But my 40 could become our daughter's 41 or more. With each additional repeat, the likelihood of an earlier onset and a harsher version of the disease increased. For weeks we debated what number would become our maximum tolerance of risk. I would accept anything in the low forties, which was the likely outcome. But my wife kept worrying about the doubt that would exist about our daughter's health.
The horrifying thoughts of the abortion itself traumatized us more than anything else. The middle of the second trimester was awfully close to viability. My wife would have to undergo an operation and spend at least one night in the hospital. We knew this experience would scar us for the rest of our lives, and maybe for eternity.
Living with uncertainty
We continued our lives as best we could, but HD once again dampened our holiday spirit. Each night my wife and I held hands in bed, and I kept my other hand over her growing belly. Very soon we expected the baby to start kicking.
To get my results we had traveled to the HD clinic. This time we wanted to be alone at home, so the geneticist agreed to call us on the phone with the results.
He called on the evening of January 28, 2000. I got on the phone in one room, and my wife got on the extension in the other room. This time I noticed his voice was more upbeat, offering a sense of anticipation.
"Your child has tested negative," he said.
I thanked him more enthusiastically then I had ever thanked anybody before.
It is no wonder that each year we send him a family Christmas card.
As soon as we got off the phone, my wife and I fell into each other's arms on the couch and cried with relief. Aside from the day of our daughter's birth, it was the happiest moment of our lives.
She became our "miracle baby." I would someday fall victim to HD, but she would not, forever wiping HD's horrible legacy from our family tree. Now each day, as I watch her grow, I delight in my daughter. If I ever think about her and HD in the same context, it is not about her suffering, but about her seeing me become like her grandma.
Maintaining a positive attitude
To answer Angela F.'s question, there's a lot we have done to pull our lives back together after Huntington's disease entered the picture, and the stories I've related are just a part of it.
It is not true that there is nothing to be done. Every moment is a challenge. Big decisions are frequent. Along the way we have taken control over our lives as much as possible. HD is there, but at least we know our enemy and can try to fight it through activism, research, and maintaining a positive attitude.
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The family of an 8th grader declared "brain dead" following a tonsillectomy is organizing a worldwide prayer vigil for the teen on Wednesday, one day after two tests showed no signs of life.
The service will begin at 6 p.m. at Paradise Baptist Church in Oakland.
"We are going to pray this girl back to perfect heath," said Omari Sealey, the uncle of 13-year-old Jahi McMath of Oakland, who had her tonsils out on Dec. 9 and was declared brain dead three days later.
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Jahi's family has been holding court outside Children's Hospital for the last several days, taking to the media to make their battle public to keep Jahi on life support. Her heart is still beating, though two EEG tests on Tuesday showed no signs of life, according to her family. They say she seemed fine after her initial surgery, but ended up coughing up blood about 30 minutes later and suffered a cardiac arrest. She has not been conscious since.
Sealey called attorney Chris Dolan earlier this week, who sent a "cease and desist" letter to Children's Hospital, telling the top staff that they had an "irreconcilable conflict of interest" in determining whether Jahi should be taken off life support. On Tuesday, hospital officials agreed, at least temporarily, to heed the family's request. Dolan told NBC Bay Area that "there is no established time table now," but that doctors will monitor her condition and "reassess and reevaluate in several days."
MORE: "Urgent" Request to Keep 8th Grader Jahi McMath on Life Support After Tonsillectomy
The hospital says it is prevented from commenting by federal laws that restrict doctors from speaking about their patients' medical history without consent. Dr. David Durand, chief of pediatrics, stated in an email that " unfortunately, we have not been authorized by the family to share information with the public about this matter. Consequently, we are not able to correct misperceptions created about this sad situation. "
Jahi had the tonsillectomy to help her with sleep apnea, the family has said, but has never disclosed more.
Durand added in his statement that "Nonetheless, we want to assure the community that we are doing everything in our capacity to provide support to the grieving family. We have been caring for children in this community for over 100 years and have a longstanding commitment to delivering the highest quality care for all...Our hearts go out to this patient and her family."
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Jahi's family is hoping the prayer will help. Despite a "brain dead" diagnosis, the 8th grader's heart continues to beat. And that gives Jahi's God-fearing family something to hang onto.
"I feel her," her mother, Latasha "Naila" Winkfield said on Tuesday outside the hospital. "I can feel my daughter, trapped inside of her own body. She is warm and soft, like she is sleeping. We are fighting for you. Your mother will never stop fighting for you."
"Everybody is praying right now for a miracle," added her stepfather, Marvin Winkfield.
Sealey, who considers his niece like his own child, urged anyone who lives nearby to physically come to the church to pray. And anyone who lives far at home should simply pray for Jahi at home.
"We're not on doctor's time," Sealey said. "We're on God's time "
NBC Bay Area's Cheryl Hurd and Jean Elle contributed to this report.


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As we all know, donald is a complete moron/noob. However, he wasn't always a moron; When he drank the waters from the fountain of youth, he was... smart... Intresting. As we know, he got ran over a while back. But, unless the waters from the well healed him, he couldn't have become intelligent again due to the water. So, what did donald do to make him so stupid? Simple.
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In Part 2 of my three-part article over at ZombieCast.net, I share some of the things that make us fans scream inside of our heads. These moments of WTF, lazy writing, lack of common sense, and simply unbelievable plot developments all fall under the umbrella of DERP! Oh, and there's lots of derpdom in The Walking Dead (Andrea and Merle, anyone?), whether you love the show or hate it.
I would have called the series The Walking Derp, but that's already been taken by a clever little animation on NewGrounds about Daryl's relentless search for Sophia. While I laughed at the animated short, I think this aspect of the plot was not by any means derpy. I think most of us would have searched for Sophia, even if the odds of her surviving were super low.
That there reminds me of what makes The Walking Dead so special: we're able to suspend our belief because they focus more on the psychology behind decisions and the development of characters. We are immersed in a world that could very well come to be one day. If we were hit by such adversity, I believe most would want to maintain all humanity and everyday living that we could. That means we would want to protect our loved ones, build homes, and do other things that may not seem practical for survival.
As such, one could postulate that merely surviving is not truly living. Andrea was faced with that very plight and would have chosen suicide if it hadn't been for Dale. Making tough decisions while balancing logic between pure survival and doing what is humane, fair, or just.. That's what makes the dynamics of TWD so awesome!
Where the derpdom sets in is when characters make decisions that make no sense, even under duress. I would say that the writers are creating tons of filler now until they build up to something really awesome. There are events that are clearly written for the sake of creating sensational television; meanwhile, the realism of these events is questionable, at best. Well, enough of that, if you want to see exactly what I mean, check out ZombieCast!
One last thought… I like Michonne as a character but she feels a bit out of place. They're finally developing her in the second half of Season 4 but her super-hero-like powers seem to be a detriment to the show. Suddenly, the tension and realism of it all seems to be far less than what we saw in the first three seasons.
In the comic setting, I think Michonne works really well but, on the television show, I am not so sure. The way everything has been set up, everyone feels vulnerable and we can picture real-life people trying to survive. Every character (except for the throw-away characters that are only introduced to be killed off soon after) has shown a wide range of emotion, personality traits, motivations, and derpyness until Michonne showed up. Even Daryl has had his close calls and derpy decisions.
In the opening of Season 4 Part II (a.k.a. Season 4.5), we have seen that Michonne is being rounded out more. She clearly has some screws loose so it's nice to see what made her so tough. Hopefully they will humanize her enough to keep the realism up on the show. We shall see how things develop!
It's time to sound off, geeks and zombies!
- Does The Walking Dead immerse you in a realistic (or at least believable), post-apocalyptic world or do you treat the show merely as an imaginary place or brief escape?
- Is Michonne too badass for the show's own good?
- What would you say is the dumbest thing that has happened on The Walking Dead yet?
- Choose your Derp King: Team Governor or Team Rick?
Sound off in the comments below!
Check out the full three-part article over at ZombieCast.net – http://www.zombiecast.net/post/76655610924 – tweet the post, follow ZCast on Tumblr, and reblog it away. Don't forget to connect with me, Yomar (a.k.a. Yogizilla), on Tumblr!


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David Damrosch is Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e (2009) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009).
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– Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine will present several key studies at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) annual meeting, including research providing critical insight into the prognosis and clinical treatment course of people with a certain subtype of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The meeting is taking place April 9-16 in Honolulu.
In a study titled "Evaluation of Progressive Relapsing MS Patients in the PROMISE Trial," Fred Lublin, MD, Saunders Family Professor of Neurology and the Director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Michelle Fabian, MD, Neurology Fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, conducted a subanalysis of the PROMISE trial. The clinical trial is a multinational, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluating the effects of glatiramer acetate treatment over three years in patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS). PPMS is characterized by steady disease progression, rather than attacks or exacerbations followed by remissions, which people with relapsing-remitting MS experience.
"We were able to analyze data from a well-controlled clinical trial to determine the frequency and clinical consequences of the occurrence of relapses in MS patients who initially have a progressive course," said Dr. Lublin. "Our data indicate that baseline characteristics and disease progression in PRMS differ from those in PPMS. As such, clinicians should consider evaluating the PRMS subgroup differently from those with PPMS in assessing prognosis and clinical course."
The research team evaluated differences in baseline characteristics and disease progression between patients with PPMS and patients with another subtype called progressive relapsing multiple sclerosis (PRMS) to help determine whether disease prognosis and treatment course should be evaluated differently in these subgroups. People with PRMS have steady disease progression, but also experience exacerbations, or relapses.
Using the data from the PROMISE trial, researchers found that 42 of the 943 PPMS patients in the PROMISE trial had documented relapses over the 53 months of the study, which indicates they could be categorized as PRMS. At the end of the study, the PRMS patients had a larger change in the Expanded Disability Status Scale, a method of quantifying disability in multiple sclerosis (0.92 vs. 0.59) than the PPMS patients, and increased risk for sustained disability progression. These results indicate that there is a definable subgroup that will inevitably convert to PRMS, and that disease progression is more rapid in this group. The data was presented Thursday, April 14, 2011, at 2:00 PM HST.
The Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai is one of the first and most comprehensive programs in the United States, focusing on treatment for and research into multiple sclerosis. With state-of-the-art programs in diagnostics, experimental therapeutics, and basic research, the Center emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to disease management. Close collaboration among researchers and clinicians results in the rapid translation of new discoveries into more effective treatments, giving patients the widest possible range of options.
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The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of few medical schools embedded in a hospital in the United States. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 15 institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institute of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The school received the 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital among the nation's best hospitals based on reputation, patient safety, and other patient-care factors. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 530,000 outpatient visits took place.
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