HD 100546
HD 100546, also known as KR Muscae, is a star 320 LY from Earth. It is orbited by an approximately 20 MJ exoplanet at 6.5 AU, although further examination of the disk profile indicate it might be a more massive object such as a brown dwarf or more than one planet. The star is surrounded by a circumstellar disk from a distance of 0.2 to 4 AU, and again from 13 AU out to a few hundred AU, with evidence for a protoplanet forming at a distance of around 47 AU.
Estimated to be around 10 million years old, it is at the upper age limit of the class of stars it belongs to—Herbig Ae/Be stars, and also the nearest example to the Solar System.
Possible birth of new planet
In 2013, researchers reported that they had found what seems to be a planet in the process of being formed, embedded in the star's large disc of gas and dust. If confirmed, it would represent the first opportunity to study the early stages of planet formation observationally.
HD 100546 b
Evidence for a planetary companion to HD 100546 was gathered using the UVES echelle spectrograph at the VLT in Chile. This confirms other data indicating a planetary companion. The planet's size puts it near the border between a giant planet and a brown dwarf.
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All Be Alright
by: Dot Dot DotI'm in love
And she's been with everybody else
And I should know
Because I've got a past myself
And what does it matter?
I'm not any better
What does it matter?
We’re both kind of shattered
Yeah, we'll all be alright (We'll all be alright)
If we can just stop playing (Just stop playing)
We'll all be alright (We'll all be alright)
If we can just stop playing, just stop playing around
Starting tonight
Let's forget about the past
And turn off the lights
Yeah, let’s make this moment last
What does it matter…
Yeah, we’ll all be alright…
I met a girl in B-Town, Indiana
She was kind of a hot mess and called herself “Savannah”
She was drinking at the ‘Bird on a quarter draft night
She was looking at the world with stars in her eyes
*She was kind of young, and I was wild in the sheets
Somewhere in the middle, our mouths compete
I was playing in a cover band, and I lost my nerve
To walk up to her
I'm in love…
And I call her “Baby…”