A4 - Wednesday, December 19, 1984 - North Shore News strictly personal by Bob Hunter You may not be alone SA STUDENT of this sort of thing, | was delighted to read the other day that astronomers have discovered the first planet to be observed beyond our solar system — again. The bo S National Research Foudnation an nounced last week that, using a new technique to detect heat radiation, its team had found an “‘ap- parent’? planet orbiting around the star Van Biesbroeck &, roughly 21 hght years trom Earth The objyect was calculated to be 30 to 80 times. as Jupiter Great! Haven't had a good new planet story to contemplate for over a year now. The last ‘‘ap- Massive as parent’ discovery of a planet) around = another star occurred in August, 1983, when a= flving telescope in orbit around the Farth spotted a ring of large particles which might be a solar system around the star Vega, 26 light years away Just three months before that, screntists equipped with radio, op tical and untrared telescopes at Santa Ctus, Calitotmia. reported thes had pinpomted a “swirl itp pascous obpect oie mg othe star Po Tau) 480 light vears away Thais par Proaurlaes obyecl Wo oxtiitiatedd tor be tive tor JO Parties thie save ot barpates I ' roe ! 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Some of my best frtends are closet astrology believers = My own wife, an otherwise ul terly rauional creature But you see, the new ap- parent planet around Van Biesbroeck 8 happens to be in the constellation Ophiuchus Ophiuchus is known to astronomers as the 13th constellation It hes. hke the other twelve, in the narrow belt of the zodiac which forms the backdrop against which the sun and the visible planets can be seen moving Ophiuchus hes squarely between Scorpre but cluded from the houses or and Sait ld Phu Was CX Signs ot thre 7dr ats whieh means bteralls 9 the pratt cot dittle arvertiaads t ! tor pend at ‘ ‘ , WoC Ft SUPE stabs ns Yirge modern ort rod re re oe Fer tre Late ab Peentiy cries Ye ewe ch bye Pde te Pease bry haat er re Peorty ber weg N Moye de as Nowy 7 at Cuptyrvis brevet 1? vk PUL ttpepady sett ater oa obvart SProrwsiip on {1 fetrotre¢ betas my OME hE prositiess ' an Come ste hata ow die Poot e Yratped over the chore bet Whaat as Prrehryye st wee PECOOSS TOL Tee eet ' Hae chars rebates Ter he tay tea hk wards Stor tie baat ars rod bre dates oyivcn Preteen pe Hail Fr ott Pare betes ROS obve de peitrre toate t hou Vice GRAND OPENING SPECIAL! 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