New Alien Planet Discovered By Qatar-Led Team
"The discovery of Qatar-1b is a great achievement -- one that further demonstrates Qatar's commitment to becoming a leader in innovative science and research," said Khalid Al Subai, leader of the Qatar exoplanet survey and a research director of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. "This discovery marks the beginning of a new era of collaborative astrophysics research between Qatar, the United Kingdom and the United States," he added.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/alien-planet-discovered-qatar-scie...
impressive!!
was just reading about it today.. :)
@flanostu, I guess so too. :))
its fine but practically it doesnt make a difference...550 light years is not a reachable distance.
Agree with you.. Qatar must be beginning to piss off a few of its neighbours....
at least qatar did it...a lot of arab countries could do it but they did not!
Ironic that Qatar should discover "A new gas giant alien planet" :o)
research between Qatar, the UK and the US.........so i'm guessing Qatar sponsored it and the UK & US did all the leg work.
lol brit
it was discovered before ....
To find the new world, Qatar's wide-angle cameras (located in New Mexico) took images of the sky every clear night beginning in early 2010....
Well done, but why didn't they name it Qatar-2022 ?