Look What We Found

ALien · 09-16-2008, 05:48 PM

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After years of searching, astronomers may finally have recorded the first image of a planet orbiting a sunlike star beyond the solar system. The body, about eight times Jupiter?s mass, lies exceptionally far from its presumed parent star ? roughly 11 times Neptune?s average distance from the sun.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...e_solar_system

Truthed · 09-16-2008, 06:02 PM

Very interesting I can't wait to see how this story develops!

CanitBe · 09-16-2008, 06:04 PM

awesome, lets see if it turns out to be anything

ALien · 09-17-2008, 09:27 AM

a whole new wooooooooooooooooooooorld..

Truthed · 09-17-2008, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ALien

a whole new wooooooooooooooooooooorld..

Aladdin?

Geri_Mars · 09-29-2008, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ALien

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...e_solar_system

Some people have stated on that site that it looks lke a brown dwarf!!!

kidflash2008 · 09-30-2008, 07:41 AM

They have found that planets are quite common around all stars. The thinking now is that red dwarfs are a great place for Earth like planets, as they last very long. The planets would be much closer to the star than we are for the warmth of the star, and that would make them to difficult to detect with today's equipment.

CanitBe · 09-30-2008, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by kidflash2008

They have found that planets are quite common around all stars. The thinking now is that red dwarfs are a great place for Earth like planets, as they last very long. The planets would be much closer to the star than we are for the warmth of the star, and that would make them to difficult to detect with today's equipment.

Who is going to be the first to see if we can live on them?

holeg2212 · 09-30-2008, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by CanitBe

Who is going to be the first to see if we can live on them?

did u just volunteer?

kidflash2008 · 10-01-2008, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by CanitBe

Who is going to be the first to see if we can live on them?

They can use instruments to detect what kind of atmosphere the planets have. The finding of all these planets of different types shows planets themselves are not unusual. There were some theories that claimed planets around stars were extremely rare.

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Truthed Administrator Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,079	Very interesting I can't wait to see how this story develops! __________________ "You Want To Believe" http://www.truthed.com truthed@truthed.com

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ALien Investigator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 330	a whole new wooooooooooooooooooooorld..

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kidflash2008 Senior Investigator Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1,699	They have found that planets are quite common around all stars. The thinking now is that red dwarfs are a great place for Earth like planets, as they last very long. The planets would be much closer to the star than we are for the warmth of the star, and that would make them to difficult to detect with today's equipment.