Alien Planets Tell Tales With Colors

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First sight of alien planets

First sight of alien planets 03/23/2005 08:36 PM
David Pescovitz: Astronomers used the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope to see planets outside our solar system for the first time ever. Previously, scientists have inferred the existence of more than 100 planets by detecting a gravity-induced wobble or shift in light in the stars that they orbit. Yesterday, the astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Goddard Space Flight Center announced that they directly observed the infrared radiation emitted by two planets 153 and 500 light-years away. (Seen here is a NASA artist's concept.) From the New York Times:

They said directly measuring light from the planets was a major step in the quest to understand what alien planets are made of, because different molecules in the atmosphere absorb infrared light in characteristic ways and allow scientists to compare these alien planets to those in the solar system. Ultimately, astronomers would like to know if Earth, with its ability to evolve and support life, is unique or common in the universe....

Dr. Geoffrey W. Marcy, a planet hunter at the University of California, Berkeley, called the results "the stuff of history books" and added, "With this result, we are closer to understanding our own human roots, chemically, among the stars."

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Alien Planets Show Themselves for First
Time

Alien Planets Show Themselves for First
Time 03/23/2005 04:42 AM
Astronomers said Tuesday that they, or at least their telescopes, had laid eyes for the first time on planets beyond the solar system.

Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy
of Alien Life

Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy
of Alien Life 02/10/2004 02:46 AM

Scientists Discern Glow of Alien Planets
for the First Time

Scientists Discern Glow of Alien Planets
for the First Time 03/22/2005 07:28 PM
Astronomers said today that they had seen the glow of alien planets for the first time.

Planets 3D

Planets 3D 11/17/2003 05:32 PM
Version 1.0 is out

Lonely Planets

Lonely Planets 01/05/2004 01:32 PM

Vga Planets JHOST

Vga Planets JHOST 05/19/2004 10:23 AM
CVS Update. Near Milestone One

Hubble harvests 100 new planets

Hubble harvests 100 new planets 07/01/2004 08:26 PM
The Hubble Space Telescope may have found as many as 100 new planets around stars in our galaxy.

Hubble harvest 100 new planets

Hubble harvest 100 new planets 07/02/2004 01:42 AM
Hubble harvests 100 new planets during a 7-day sweep of the bulge of the Milky Way.. If confirmed it would almost double the number of known planets to about 230. "I think this work has the potential to be the most significant advance in discovering extra-solar planetary systems since the first planets were discovered in the mid-1990s."

Astronomers Spot Smallest Planets Yet
(AP)

Astronomers Spot Smallest Planets Yet
(AP) 09/01/2004 12:31 AM
AP - American astronomers say they have discovered the two smallest planets yet orbiting nearby stars, trumping a small planet discovery by European scientists five days ago and capping the latest round in a frenzied hunt for other worlds like Earth.

NASA to Announce New Class of Planets
(AP)

NASA to Announce New Class of Planets
(AP) 08/31/2004 02:53 AM
AP - Astronomers have discovered four new planets in a week's time, an exciting end-of-summer flurry that signals a sharper era in the hunt for new worlds.

Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets

Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets 07/02/2004 11:29 AM
Slashdot Jul 2 2004 3:17PM GMT

New Clues Are Detected About Planets of
Other Stars

New Clues Are Detected About Planets of
Other Stars 01/08/2004 08:37 PM
Astronomers have detected a magnetic field around a planet around a distant star, offering one of the first clues to the properties of a planet outside the solar system.

Astronomers See Light from Extrasolar
Planets

Astronomers See Light from Extrasolar
Planets 03/23/2005 09:52 AM

Spitzer Telescope Discovers Planets Via
Infrared

Spitzer Telescope Discovers Planets Via
Infrared 03/22/2005 07:17 PM

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble
harvests 100 new planets

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble
harvests 100 new planets 07/04/2004 02:41 AM

they have evidence for Earth-like
planets orbiting a nearby star

they have evidence for Earth-like
planets orbiting a nearby star 12/02/2003 01:54 AM
Dusty disc may mean other Earths. Gates of steel my ass .. evidence

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3251382.stm
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Double Vision: Two Telescopes for
Hunting Earth-like Planets

Double Vision: Two Telescopes for
Hunting Earth-like Planets 05/26/2004 01:48 PM
Space.com May 26 2004 5:27PM GMT

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble
discovers 100 new planets

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble
discovers 100 new planets 07/03/2004 08:47 AM

Watching as Dusty Disks Slowly Turn Into
Planets

Watching as Dusty Disks Slowly Turn Into
Planets 12/22/2004 01:56 AM
Until recently, astronomers had never seen dust and planets around the same stars. This month, astronomers said they had closed the loop.

New Images Show Signs of Planets Forming
around Young Star

New Images Show Signs of Planets Forming
around Young Star 08/16/2004 12:37 AM

Mad About Colors

Mad About Colors 01/07/2004 04:34 PM

Marc's post about Behr Paint's wonderful Lazlo-based color picker application reminded me that I needed a color picker myself so I went shopping for one this afternoon.

I have a healthy respect for the power of colors but my color-sense is one-directional: I can go from colors to judgement but not the other way.  That is, I can't say “I want some nice professional set of colors for these set of web pages” and then come up with one.  Thankfully, there are programs to help me.  Most of them are appropriately priced pathetic sharewares, but I found a couple that looked good: ColorImpact 2 and Color Wheel Pro 2.

After trying both, I found Color Wheel Pro 2 to be the better of the two.  Lucky for me, it even costs less than the other one.  Nice.

Update:

Found another nice website that explains colors in a pleasant way: handprint.

More on Colors

More on Colors 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

More on Colors

Jason has more on colors (I mentioned the matched color picker recently).  Nice stuff.

7 Colors 1.2.1

7 Colors 1.2.1 12/15/2003 04:28 PM
Occupy the larger part of the board before your Mac does.

3 New Planets Are Found, and Their Size,
Close to Earth's, Makes Scientists Think
'Life'

3 New Planets Are Found, and Their Size,
Close to Earth's, Makes Scientists Think
'Life' 08/31/2004 10:39 PM
A trio of newly discovered worlds are much smaller than any other planets previously discovered outside of our solar system.

3 Planets Are Found Close in Size to
Earth, Making Scientists Think 'Life'

3 Planets Are Found Close in Size to
Earth, Making Scientists Think 'Life' 09/01/2004 12:52 AM
A trio of newly discovered worlds are much smaller than any other planets previously discovered outside of our solar system.

Nails of many colors

Nails of many colors 11/12/2003 01:06 PM
Not sure what to make of this, but a Spanish researcher has invented press-on nails that can change color to match your outfit. Read...

The miracle of seeing colors

The miracle of seeing colors 05/22/2004 06:32 PM
McMinnville News-Register,OR-4 hours ago ... I make no pretense at being an expert on this subject, so I turned to Google, the source of information about everything, a miracle in itself. ...

"Prophetable colors"

"Prophetable colors" 07/18/2004 03:10 PM

Feel the colors....

Feel the colors.... 12/02/2003 01:19 AM
I dreamt last night I could feel colors red was warm and sometimes burning while purple was something that tickled...

New Logo and colors

New Logo and colors 03/13/2003 10:14 AM
I've updated the color scheme, and added a logo.. I know the logo sucks :) Don't tell me, make a...

Colors of the Past

Colors of the Past 12/27/2004 08:00 PM
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii took three b&w photos of his subjects using red, green, and blue filters. Now, they've been digitally composited, and we have stunning , authentic color photographs of Russia in the early 1900's.

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales 10/29/2003 01:15 AM

From the maker of DoomBuggies.com, the excellent Haunted Mansion resource, comes the newly launched Tell No Tales, the unofficial tribute to the Pirates of the Caribbean.

Yeah, I've been checking back repeatedly to see if this site had launched. If that makes me a dork, I accept the nomenclature gladly.

"Alien"

"Alien" 07/10/2004 03:22 PM

Charts! Graphs! The colors!

Charts! Graphs! The colors! 09/10/2004 05:03 PM

Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Four Years Ago?

Are Web Safe Colors Obsolete?

Are Web Safe Colors Obsolete? 07/03/2004 07:16 AM
"...He poked a finger into my chest and insisted it's absolutely essential to use web safe colors in graphics."

Apple Shows Some Mean Colors

Apple Shows Some Mean Colors 07/29/2004 11:26 AM

CNN: Apple: RealNetworks hacked iPod. Apple Computer accused RealNetworks Thursday of adopting the tactics of a hacker and breaking into the technology behind its popular music player iPod device.

So Apple is happy to let you play your music only in the way it permits, if you're going to use its devices. The company says it'll rewrite its software to thwart Real's customer-friendly hack -- and I use that word in the benevolent sense -- that lets people use what they've bought with just a bit more freedom than Apple wishes to grant. Threats to use copyright law against Real are exactly what you'd expect, unfortunately. Apple wants control over online music, and this is just part of the game. What we customers want is cross-platform compatibility: standards. What the companies want is lock-in. They may win, but they're only locking me out -- because I won't play by those rules. Which means I've bought my last iTunes Music Store song until Apple starts paying more attention to what its customers want.

Olympus m:robe 100 in Two New Colors

Olympus m:robe 100 in Two New Colors 04/14/2005 10:03 AM

Olympus is offering two new colors of their m:robe MR-100 MP3 player—sort of. The front of the device is still the Knight-Rider-like red-on-black (of which, I must say, I am a fan). The back of the current models is white, but the new models will be available with backs in light pink and light blue. It's like those videos I used to stare at when I was a kid, where the cover girl was a studious bookworm by day but a crime-fighting whore at night. I may be getting some of the plot-points confused.

No idea if we'll get these models in America. I guess it depends on how well the MR-100 is selling, which is hard to augur considering Olympus misguidedly put all their marketting muscle into the MR-500.

2 new colours for the m:robe MR-100 [AkihabaraNews]

Creating complementary colors?

Creating complementary colors? 05/25/2004 11:52 AM
Another one for the bookmarks. This time it's the free, Flash-based QuickColor. Three sliders produce six boxes of colors that complement each other nicely. Accepts RGB input as well and always displays the #Hex value. I'm goin' there often. A thought: It might be nice if pop-up color wheels, palettes, etc. would know the context in which they were to be applied and start ...
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