A planet around another sun?

The Wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1RXS_J160929.1-210524) about this object is interesting. It says that the star is a T-Tauri star which is a star in the very early stage of it's evolution and that this star is only 5 million years old. The "planet" in this remarkable photo is probably a brown dwarf though the size, 8 Jupiter masses, is at the low end for such objects. But it is still so young that it is probably still in the stage of radiating heat from gravitational shrinkage and not from hydrogen fusion. It is a very long way from it's primary though and it may be a failed star that has been captured rather than has accreted in place from the star's protoplanetary disk. In any event, the star is far to young for any sort of life to have evolved on it's satellites.

Wow..! That is a very interesting thing to know. Well, there is really a possibility for it to be true.

Sounds exciting. I like stories of other planets and this is proof there is one. I wonder how big the planet is, whether it supports life, what kind of people live on it, whether they are going to visit Earth, how far away it is from its sun. I do think that it would be farther away from its sun to have the same kind of climate here on Earth, would it not?

I was really into astronomy when I was in Jr. High School. Like you I hated the math. Neat article!

Hello Sweets I find this very interesting also. I wish we could find out more about it. I know there must be others we don't know about. xoxoxoxoxoxo

Hi Elic. Our sun is a star. Every star is a sun. Every sun more than likely has planets around it, so there's very good chance that somewhere in this vast eternal universe that one of those planets (at the very least) has the ability to support life because it is situation at just the right position in orbit around its sun. I have no doubt whatsoever that we are NOT the only planet capable of supporting life. I don't know that I buy the idea that other life looks like the Roswell type creatures we have seen photos of, but who are we to say differently. We can't assume that because we look like us, that all humanoid life will naturally look like us. But, if they have found a planet, then that's pretty cool. And, I'm not surprised.

Hi ELic, interesting...

Hmmmm... :}

Hi ElicBxn, Thanks for the link and I will have a look later as I'm going off to bed. Tamara