55 Cancri. Now five planets.

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Hi Dragon04.<br /><br />The Wiki page is not correct. Not always a reliable source. <br /><br />I have found many errors with Wikipedia before & seldom, if at all use it for anything <br />other than diagrams & charts, which are usually sourced from elsewhere, <br />but are difficult to find otherwise.<br /><br />55 Cancri is approx 8 GYO, maybe even a little more, quite a bit older than the Sun, <br />so they could not have formed together.<br /><br />The biggest clues to its advanced age is the lack of starspot activity, consistently <br />quite corona & a very slow rotation. Also it is quite luminous considering its lesser mass,<br />also a clue to its great age.<br /><br />I would love to find a star that was born in the same steller nursery as our Sun. <br /><br />They exist, no doubt about it, but the original cluster is now dispersed & our Sun's <br />siblings could be all over the place, many quite possibly on the other side of the Milky Way,<br />many more massive members have already died & a few may even have been <br />expelled from the Milky Way, ejected after close encounters with other stars.<br /><br />55 Cancri, is not a solar sibling, it is far too old. 55 Cancri was already at least 2.5 GYO,<br />as our Solar System was starting to form.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

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Andrew, <br /><br />Can you tell me how have you generated those images? I want to do myself.