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In 2005, Hubble astronomer Paul Kalas, of the University of California at Berkeley, and others hypothesized that a planet between the star, Fomalhaut, and the inner edge of the ring had a gravitational effect that offset the ring from the center of the star. - Mitchell Tsai
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Now, Hubble has captured evidence. It photographed a point source of light 1.8 billion miles inside the ring's inner edge, NASA said. - Mitchell Tsai
NASA said that Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys' coronagraph showed in observations taken 21 months apart that the object moves around the star, indicating it is gravitationally tied to it. The planet is 10.7 billion miles from the star. - Mitchell Tsai
"Our Hubble observations were incredibly demanding," Kalas said. "Fomalhaut b is 1 billion times fainter than the star. We began this program in 2001, and our persistence finally paid off." - Mitchell Tsai
NASA hopes that its James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2013, will capture infrared images while searching for other planets and asteroid belts. NASA also will seek signs of water vapor clouds and give a glimpse of how the 100 million-year-old planet evolved. - Mitchell Tsai
Isn't a service like Disqus a type of solution for this? It takes the comments and brings them into aggregation sites, like FF, making them part of the discussion. - Aram Zucker-Scharff
I love Disqus for the simple fact that it can be aggregated and alerts me to some cool discussion going on - perhaps at a post I failed to read myself. So, I agree with Aram. :) We can have our cake and eat it, too. - Shawn Farner
It's also what Backtype is for, and grabs comments from blogs that don't use Disqus. - April Russo
Disqus is cool and all... but most of you do not understand that Disqus (or even Intense Debate or JS-Kit) is not the be all end all solution to this whole comment thing. I mean, look at ReadBurner... they use Disqus, does that put *those* comments back on the blogs that use Disqus? No, it does not. Disqus is just another tool in this great medium, but it does not solve *this* particular matter at all. - Matt Shaulis
Answering Matt, the solution should be an Open Comments standard that lets aggregators pass comments back to the original site, assuming the author of the comment has given permission, and that the author of the original post accepts it. We need to find a standard that works with Disqus, FriendFeed, Socialmedian, IntenseDebate, you name it. - Louis Gray
Not sure a standard like that is valuable -- passing comments back to the original site is no longer interesting (it's interesting for publishers, but not readers and contributors). There's a reason why comment behavior is fragmenting; there's a reason why this discussion is taking place on FF. - Christopher Golda
As for the Open Comments... erm... we tried... there was a lot of nastiness behind the scenes on that topic that would surely take a lot of community members aback about their favorite services but suffice it to say, I agree 100% with Louis on that one. And Shyftr was willing and ready to do our part to help establish/follow this standard, but it takes everyone participating and willing to share the love. :( (ps. Christopher: it is interesting and would make a lot of content publishers happy campers.) - Matt Shaulis
The main problem with sharing comments from services is that the conversation is different. The conversation here is different than what is happening on Louis' blog. The problem is that people do not know that a conversation is happening somewhere. I am trying to work towards a solution for that. - Rob Diana
Rob... I for one am grateful for all the work and attention you've put into the comment landscape... of course you already knew that I was a fan of your work but I feel like in this context it bears repeating. And anyone else who has not familiarized themselves with your efforts should take a minute and check out yacktrack.com and give you some feedback. ;) - Matt Shaulis
Thanks Matt. I do not like "pimping" my own site except for the occasional updates, so thanks for the mention. - Rob Diana
I don't care any more. My posts are under CC-BY for this reason. Some readers want to reply to *me* -they should leave a comment at my blog. Others want to reply to the post -they may leave their comments where they find my post -may that be on GReader (share with note) or FF, or elsewhere. I do appreceiate when such services give me a way to know of the existance of comments using pingbacks, or trackbacks or some other mechanism. - Panayotis Vryonis
As for the people who tolerate non-comment blogs, that's where tumblr comes in. I simply don't have comments enabled due to the fact that no one has any feedback for me or I don't get enough pageviews. - Josh Jenkins
I care if the comments are made somewhere that I never see them. I'd like to know about it. Some of these services fetch one copy of the article and then serve it up entirely from their own site, the original author may never know that people are reading and commenting there. - Denton Gentry
Denton, that is where services like YackTrack.com and BackType.com are useful. You can find comments on your blog posts on various services. - Rob Diana
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These are just general questions, btw, until I saw your Apple-A-Day Category." - Josh Jenkins
I like "sketch a human body and locate the following" because it looks like every page of notes I had in high school and college lectures. - Steve Craft
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