Fountains and Bubbles: New Cosmic Mysteries: “…(T)he meeting of the

American Astronomical Society last

week in Washington was a sounding

board for scientists with new findings

and ideas about nearly everything

from mysterious gamma ray bursts in

deep space to revealing images

penetrating the turbulent heart of the

Milky Way, Earth’s home galaxy.

Two new discoveries described at the

meeting underscored the growing and

bewildering realization that planetary

systems abound in the nearby

universe and that they come in all

shapes and sizes, bearing little

apparent resemblance to the Sun’s

family of planets.” New York Times