DeadlyParasite
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Exciting stuff, I have to believe that in my lifetime we'll have the technology to get extremely clear images of these star systems.
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NASA exoplanet discovery conference (7 Earth-sized planets, 3 in habitable zone)
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nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
Enjoy your crappy little star, losers.
LookAtMeGo
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And is now run by a remnant fascist state of anime avatars.
Blue Ninja
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Nah, need real trappistbeers as names. Chimay, Orval, Rochefort, Westmalle and Westvleteren. Throw in La Trappe to round it out.
I'd never leave that system, goddamn. It'd be the greatest place in the galaxy.
Donald Trump Discovers Planet Amine
I bet these planets have a civilization that already discovered us and is shirking down behind their newspaper hoping we don't notice them
Because they are more interested in protecting their own terrestrial interests over advancement of the species a whole. I mean, we're lucky that NASA exists now even if it only came to be as a way to try and 1-up the USSR during the Cold War.
LookAtMeGo
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They already listened. Nada. Or at least thats what they are telling us.
SwipeLeftHoney
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I'm surprised nobody has posted this yet in here... Just Imagine... Our dreams may become a reality sooner than expected
lastplayed
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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...h-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around
E, F, G are in the habitable zone.
Ha, looks exactly like Elite Dangerous' system info. The amount of times I've scanned those Earth-like planets...
Fine Ham Abounds
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So who wants to create a startup with me where we launch little nano-satellites with cameras and sails to ride the sunlight there
We'll be dead by the time the images get back of course
We'll be dead by the time the images get back of course
lastplayed
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That puts things into perspective.
love you. Unless this is where you reveal you love IPAs. My goal in life is to end the shitty IPA fad, and replace it with belgians - dobbel through quads..
It's too bad Seattle is plagued with IPAs.
Is this the Hosnian system? Always thought several rocky earth like planets in the same solar system seemed unlikely... Welp the u overseas just made Star Wars more believable.
This is amazing. I'm sort of expecting actual life to be found on another planet in another solar system in the near future once telescopes and techniques improve. Amazing time to be alive. When I say life I mean an obviously green planet of some kind. Not aliens.. But I also expect aliens eventually!
This is amazing. I'm sort of expecting actual life to be found on another planet in another solar system in the near future once telescopes and techniques improve. Amazing time to be alive. When I say life I mean an obviously green planet of some kind. Not aliens.. But I also expect aliens eventually!
Blue Ninja
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I'm Belgian, I only drink true beer.
IPA's aren't all bad, but they're not "call a planet after them"-good, either.
My brother. We shall venture forth and conquer this great system, together.
LookAtMeGo
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I maybe be wrong here but liquid water can still exist outside of the habitable zone due to thicker atmosphere or tidal flexing kind of like on Europa. Europas waters not on the surface but it might be under the ice, and thats out of the habitable zone. And I think I heard them say that these planets are close enough to each other that they can create tidal forces with each other.
I think habitable zone is just the most likely area around a star to find these conditions.
Price Dalton
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Hasn't Trump pledged to put more money into space travel? Could be a lone bright spot for some folks.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
I guess it could also mean things like radiation. I'm assuming that the term "habitable zone" is a little more nuanced than I thought.
KoopaTheCasual
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Thought:
These findings trace back to things they were observing back of May of 2016.
(Not to diminish the importance of these discoveries being publicized now, but) I think this is NASA making a big grand discovery of how useful they are, so that any budget cuts from Donald Cheeto will look really really bad.
But who am I kidding? He'll make the cuts regardless.
These findings trace back to things they were observing back of May of 2016.
(Not to diminish the importance of these discoveries being publicized now, but) I think this is NASA making a big grand discovery of how useful they are, so that any budget cuts from Donald Cheeto will look really really bad.
But who am I kidding? He'll make the cuts regardless.
Has he? If so that's funny because it flies in the face of his general anti-intellectualism stance.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...h-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around
E, F, G are in the habitable zone.
So the only things we really know are that those planets are probably in the right place to where water could be liquid on the surface, and that they MIGHT be around the mass of Earth.
Any artist conception has to make a lot of assumptions about the atmosphere and whatnot.
QuiteWhittle
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Of course. For all we know one of these planets could be Venus 2.0
For stars, luminosity (the rate at which they use up energy) is proportional to a higher power of mass (about 3.5), so the most massive stars burn out more quickly and thus have the shortest lives. This is actually one of the ways astronomers can determine the age of a stellar cluster - by looking for the most massive stars in the cluster (if stars of a given mass are still there, you can put an upper limit on the age of the cluster).
Consequently, a red dwarf like this one will comfortably live on billions of years after out own Sun has used up the material in its core.
OniBarubary
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Naming planets after beers is like naming your kids from a bug you scraped off the bottom of your shoe one day.
I'm listening to soundtrack on youtube
Just started looking at the actual story at NASA. It actually says all of them could possibly have liquid water under the right atmospheric conditions. The three middle ones are just where the chances are highest.
sono
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The tidal forces would be interesting..
BizzyBum
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Can you imagine if like 2-3 of the planets in that solar system had some sort of advanced life like us? Would be like if we could interact with other people on Venus and Mars, that would definitely expedite space travel. lol
Every time I see cool space news I just get depressed because all we care about is funding stuff to kill people with or fucking up our planet with global warming. Until these things change (they won't) we'll never get far in terms of space travel unless we get some unprecedented breakthrough or friendly aliens visit us and share their tech.
Every time I see cool space news I just get depressed because all we care about is funding stuff to kill people with or fucking up our planet with global warming. Until these things change (they won't) we'll never get far in terms of space travel unless we get some unprecedented breakthrough or friendly aliens visit us and share their tech.
eot
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Don't count on it, I did a back of the napkin calculation and you'd need a telescope roughly 10km wide to resolve the planet itself, let alone any features on it. That's of course not taking the snr problems into account.
Melon Husk
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Here's a blank edition http://www.blastr.com/2017-2-22/exoplanet-news-seven-earth-sized-planets-found-orbiting-nearby-star
It might not be much bigger than Jupiter, but it's hella heavy.
By the way, if any of those planets is "earth-like" they're still all tidally locked. Go and look up artist conceptions of tidally locked exoplanets.
If one had liquid water, it's possible the entire half of the planet facing away from the star could be a giant glacier in permanent night. The side directly facing the sun could be pretty hot too, so the most "habitable" area could be in the sort of "twilight" area. I think that's what they're trying to illustrate in TRAPPIST-1f in one of the pictures above.
If one had liquid water, it's possible the entire half of the planet facing away from the star could be a giant glacier in permanent night. The side directly facing the sun could be pretty hot too, so the most "habitable" area could be in the sort of "twilight" area. I think that's what they're trying to illustrate in TRAPPIST-1f in one of the pictures above.
I propose we name the 3 planets in the goldilocks zone Motovia, Palma, and Dezoris. We should also build a massive mother ship and call it Noah and invade the sh!t out of them. If we start now it should take a bout 1,000 years.
My 90's kid fam should know what I am talking about!
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
He has, but at the expense of Earth observation programs.
Obliterator
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Man I hope sometime in my Lifetime we get the ability to actually directly image planets like this. Would be incredible. I should have a good 35 - 40 years left in the tank so I think its not impossible.
Marky Mark
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SolarPowered
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This is one hell of a discovery. Seven earth sized planets with three being in the goldilocks zone seems like a "one in a million" sort of a discovery.
fireatwill
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this announcement makes me so incredibly happy. Just a shame getting to those planets won't happen in my life time. (or will it?)
sono
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