--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@...> wrote: > > This is great science and engineering work. The next feat should be to see > the cloud tops of these alien planets. > > http://news.yahoo.com/1st-photo-alien-planet-forming-snapped-telescope-153016924.html > "So far, planet formation has mostly been a topic tackled by computer simulations," astronomer Sascha Quanz of ETH Zurich in Switzerland, leader of the research team, said in a statement. "If our discovery is indeed a forming planet, then for the first time scientists will be able to study the planet formation process and the interaction of a forming planet and its natal environment empirically at a very early stage."
I think the scientists have to just sit behind the telescope and patiently wait to see how the planet evolves.
