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Richard Seeker 
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The largest planet ever found orbiting another star is so puffy it would float on water, astronomers said Thursday. The newly discovered planet, dubbed HAT-P-1, is both the largest and least dense of the nearly 200 worlds astronomers have found outside our own solar system. HAT-P-1 orbits one of a pair of stars in the constellation Lacerta, about 450 light-years from Earth. "This new planet, if you could imagine putting it in a cosmic water glass, it would float," said Robert Noyes, a research astrophysicist with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. HAT-P-1 is an oddball planet, since it orbits its parent star at just one-twentieth of the distance that separates Earth from our own sun. While Earth takes a year to orbit the sun, the newly found planet whips around its star once every 4.5 days. Astronomers believe HAT-P-1 may belong to an entirely new class of planets, along with a second, smaller distant world that's also puffier than theories would have predicted, Noyes said. Astronomers used a network of telescopes in Arizona and Hawaii to discover the planet. Its parent star is too faint to see with the naked eye but can be spied with binoculars. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_sc/puffy_planet
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Astrojewels Super Moderator 
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I read about this one Richard, there seems to be many discoveries this year! Giving us ‘fluffy’ planets, taking away others, they seem to be confused with their own translations of yes and no. it is all part of the current energy of illusion, now you see- now you don’t. However, I do find it interesting that the media is taking so much interest in ‘space discovery’, this maybe proof that global consciousness is changing and humanity is finally looking beyond! Because people are interested and talking about the ‘finds’ in common conversation.
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Richard Seeker
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It sounds like you hit the nail on the head Karen. You have excellent insight. It does seem that all the sudden the media is cranking out space stories left and right. I expect they are preparing us for many changes that will take place soon.
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