Stu7
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This is a tour of recently confirmed exoplanets revolving around near stars in far off Solar Systems. It makes you really think about the possibility of civilizations existing on other worlds.
I searched the entire catalogue of the exoplanet website:
http://exoplanet.eu/catalog-RV.php
and came up with as many as i could find.
If anyone can find any more please let me know.
enjoy
Stu
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syzygy
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Loc: Hungary
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Great start Stu7!
what about picture illustrating?
here you are one for your collection: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap990416.html
and another one for mine in case i could find out WHERE IN THE HELL that Gilese 876d is?!? 
EDIT: the attached file contains all marks for all forthcoming replies by me in this topic!
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A Dangerous Sunrise on Gliese 876d
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Inga Nielsen (Hamburg Obs., Gate to Nowhere)
On planet Gliese 876d, sunrises might be dangerous. Although nobody really knows what conditions are like on this close-in planet orbiting variable red dwarf star Gliese 876, the above artistic illustration gives one impression. With an orbit well inside Mercury and a mass several times that of Earth, Gliese 876d might rotate so slowly that dramatic differences exist between night and day. Gliese 876d is imagined above showing significant volcanism, possibly caused by gravitational tides flexing and internally heating the planet, and possibly more volatile during the day. The rising red dwarf star shows expected stellar magnetic activity which includes dramatic and violent prominences. In the sky above, a hypothetical moon has its thin atmosphere blown away by the red dwarf's stellar wind. Gliese 876d excites the imagination partly because it is one of the few extrasolar planets known to be close to the habitable zone of its parent star.
more: NASA - APOD
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Georeference(s) from GEC:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1166937/an//page//vc/1
All about exoplanets: http://exoplanet.eu/
Artists galleries: http://spaceart.org/index.html
another cool images source page:
http://www.exoplaneten.de/index_english.html
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Edited by syzygy (05/24/08 04:14 AM)
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syzygy
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placemark added to file in first reply !
the second from mine with image illustrated description in KMZ at first has arrived from exoplaneten.de
Speculations about 51 Pegasi b
This was the first definite planet dicovered around a normal, main sequence star, and it was a world that should not be there, according to traditional theories. As close as 0,05 AU to its parent star, 51 Pegasi b has an average temperature of 1.300°C, sufficiently high to melt aluminium. But more surprising to the scientific world, 51 Pegasi b is almost as massive as Jupiter. As a gas giant, this planet could not have formed so close to the star. Most likely it formed in the outer ranges of the system and than migrated to its current position, possibly by interaction with a second giant planet, which was then thrown out of the system during this process. Or it may indeed have formed at its current position, but then 51 Pegasi b would be a supermassive terrestrial world. Inofficially, this planet has been named Vulkan, and it is really a place like Hell.
more from source: web page
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Gerardo64
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A nice feature of this site is you can see the stars with exoplanets in 3D, choose one and see in other window (now in 2D) details like orbit, masses, distance from star, etc.
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syzygy
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oops!
i just checked your collection by finished the second mark and have seen you already marked this one and i just made a duplicate for GSky layer so i offer it for you to use it in your file!
placemark added to file in first reply !
i will return with a new one you still not have soon!
great link gerardo! thanks!
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