Finally a huge breakthrough in space study, far away from our milky way.  Scientist have first time witnessed another fully functional Solar system. After years of scientific speculation that our dear Sun and its 9 rocks cannot be alone in space, and years of research into finding a replication of this beautiful pattern, finally man has photographed 4 planets revolving around their own proud star - HR 8799.

This is believed to be in the Pegasus constellation. The star is about 60 million year old, which in astronomical terms is fairly young. To provide another perspective to its age, it was formed after dinosaurs on Earth were already extinct. The star is believed to be 130 light years away from Earth.  The discovered planets in the HR 8799’s system are huge, about seven to ten times the mass of Jupiter. And the parent star HR 8799 is about 1.5 times the size of our Sun.  The scientist leading the discovery is Christian Marios of the National Research Council of Canada’s Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics.  

Hundreds of other rocks have been inferred in the past, but all that was based on assumptions and inferences. HR 8799 is a direct observation which is now captured and the world press is working overtime to print it or upload for the entire world to see. I saw it last night and cannot get over it. I feel strongly this is going to be one of the biggest discovery of this millenium, if not the biggest. Who know’s, this may actually take us closer to Extraterrestial life than we have ever been? It will be strange to wake up one day and know things are breathing elsewhere too. 

Work of God or a product of science, is for you to go figure. To me it is just plain simple beautiful.