ExtraSolar Planets

[Jivatman]

from the article:

"astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system for the first time.

the finding, to be detailed in an upcoming issue of astrophysical journal, confirms previous theories that say water vapor should be present in the atmospheres of nearly all the known extrasolar planets. even hot jupiters, gaseous planets that orbit closer to their stars than mercury to our sun, are thought to have water.

the discovery, announced today, means one of the most crucial elements for life as we know it can exist around planets orbiting other stars."

this is a pretty big deal. there exists water in several planets not only in our solar system, but in another solar system. this means that water must be abundant throughout the universe.

if existent or dead life is discovered on mars or one of these planets, that would mean that life itself, also must be abundant throughout the universe, and, of course, most life being older than earth's, would likely be intelligent.

anyone else continuing to think that it's possible that nasa is going to slowly release data making a stronger case for life, until they finally reveal it?

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/some_earth_like_worlds_may_have_foliage_of_colors_ other_than_green_999.html

be well, be love

david

some earth-like worlds may have foliage of colors other than green

by staff writers
pasadena ca (spx) apr 11, 2007

in the next decade, when scientists are able to study earth-sized worlds around other stars, they may find that foliage on some of the planets is predominantly yellow--or orange, or red. it all depends on the color of the star the planet orbits and the stuff that makes up the planet's atmosphere.
that's the conclusion of researchers from the virtual planetary laboratory, a nasa-funded initiative at the california institute of technology, who are announcing today results from a series of comprehensive computer models for guiding the future search for plant life on other worlds. two related papers on what to expect out of photosynthesis are being issued in the journal astrobiology.

determining the range of possible colors is important because scientists need to know what to look for when they begin getting spectra of light from faraway earth-sized planets, says lead author nancy kiang, a biometeorologist at nasa's goddard institute for space studies, and currently a visitor at caltech's spitzer science center.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=367459&ssid=27&sid=env

be well, be love.

david

first habitable earth like planet outside solar system discovered

munich, april 24: an international team of astronomers from switzerland, france and portugal have discovered the most earth-like planet outside our solar system to date.

the planet has a radius only 50 percent larger than earth and is very likely to contain liquid water on its surface.

the research team used the european southern observatory’s (eso’s) 3.6-m telescope to discover the super-earth, which has a mass about five times that of the earth and orbits a red dwarf already known to harbour a neptune-mass planet.

astronomers believe there is a strong possibility in the presence of a third planet with a mass about eight times that of the earth in the system.

however, unlike our earth, this planet takes only 13 days to complete one orbit round its star. it is also 14 times closer to its star than the earth is from the sun.

[LightEye]

dearfriends,

here's another article with images.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=450467&in_page_id=1965

be well, be love.

david

found: the new earth
by michael hanlon - more by this author » last updated at 22:33pm on 24th april 2007

it's got the same climate as earth, plus water and gravity. a newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there.

above a calm, dark ocean, a huge, bloated red sun rises in the sky - a full ten times the size of our sun as seen from earth. small waves lap at a sandy shore and on the beach, something stirs...

[SpiralCycle]

ahh no way i just ran into this as it came out, very cool find indeed! i hope we start to check into it much more in the future.

[pyramidnj]

david and all: my gut tells me that "discovery" of this habitable planet is the beginning of the end of predominance of the spin doctors version of reality that we are alone in the universe. when my son interrupted my meditation this morning to announce what he heard on the news, i immediately sensed that this was the signal that change is accelerating. the heavens will open big time, soon, and no other person's life will be ruined by efforts to protect the illusion. i am wondering if this "discovery" was not allowed by the confederation of galaxies to begin preparing humans for a more large-scale revealing of intelligent life everywhere beyond earth...preparing us to minimize the potential mass fear factor when ships do land and contact is openly made.

does this sound plausible, or are my thoughts just the musing of a gal who since childhood has looked at the sky with a deep and inexplicable sense of wonder and longing?

jo anne

[SpiralCycle]

i think they are well put and had similar conclusions internally myself.

[Jivatman]

alien worlds, once hidden from knowledge, are now being discovered in droves, stunning astronomers with their unique features and sheer numbers. the discoveries are so common that more and more don't even get reported outside scientific circles.

take the announcement at the end of may of a massive planet, dubbed tres-3, that zips around its star in an amazingly rapid 31 hours, giving the planet a 1.3-day year. astronomers issued a press release, but you might not have heard about it because the discovery was so overshadowed by other planet announcements and barely received news coverage...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070611_mm_planet_floodgates.html

[Chris Hamilton]

as science gets keener, new extrasolar planets will be listed here

[Chris Hamilton]

a young sun has material circling it that may eventually form into a planet. read more here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071003-earth-birth.html

chris

[ZENKAIpower]

whats irritates me is all that money spend in the wrong way instead of financing this kind of projects. what if 10% of money going to iraq goes to this and similar projects? we would be spotting planets left and right, but that's for another debate...

i wish i can visit all those worlds... when you think about it earth is just another planet in the universe. it cant be any more special than any other world. just another aspect of divine.
there must be intelligent life out there looking at the sky wondering the same things as we are. we exist in the same dimension. looking at each other. never to contact? i hope we will. there isn't much sense in being separate. look at earth history. all continents and races were apart for a long time. and now we are all connected. i think that will happen on universal scale too. just matter of time really.

[sundari]

this post instantly reminded me of the very end of one of the stargate sg1 episodes, where sg1 "gates" to another world for the first time, and the scenery that greets them is a thick ground cover of trees with beautiful magenta leaves. the way they showed it, it was so lovely and charming, and i wished that something like that really existed and that i could see it someday. just like so many aspects of this tv series that are based on truth, it's looking like this colored-foliage thing is also!

[litllady]

hi all,

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080915-planet-picture.html

september 15, 2008—an image released today of a distant star and its potential planetary companion could go down in history as the first picture of a planet outside our solar system orbiting a sunlike star.

the possible planet—a hot, young body (upper left) about eight times more massive than jupiter—sits roughly 330 times as far from its host star as earth is from the sun. the pair lies about 500 light-years from earth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7725584.stm

visible and infrared images have been snapped of a planet orbiting a star 25 light-years away.

the planet is believed to be the coolest, lowest-mass object ever seen outside our own solar neighbourhood.

in a separate study, an exoplanetary system, comprising three planets, has been directly imaged, circling a star in the constellation pegasus.

peace,
lynette

[noel1111]

i can't believe that the news of the discovery of a new galaxy isnt plastered all over the news! i think that is an amazing discovery and its mentioned as a throw away. they even said that they found another earth like planet. i don't understand why its being handled as no big deal. i think its the most exciting news we've had in a long time. anyone else really excited by this news??

http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0407/new-earth.html


astronomers have found what they beleive to be the most earth-like planet outside the solar system. this new world appears to have running water on its surface.

it is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation libra and orbits the faint star gliese 581.

scientists in chile made the discovery using the eso 3.6m telescope.

the scientists believe that the moderate temperatures on the planet could indicate that water could exists as liquid and that this increases the likelyhood of life spawning.

[spearofdestiny]

today it has been announced the discovery of 32 new exo-planets (planets not belonging to our solar system and orbiting a star).

the number of known exo-planets is now 350.

:rolleyes:

[RayneboWolf]

incredible announcement to be made in a months time concerning planets more planets and much more planets to come :d
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34350505/ns/technology_and_science-space/
everything is coming together very fast now..what a rush!!
love tim ~x)o(x~

[RayneboWolf]

a super earth has been discovered that`s 40 light years away from us,it has water and an atmosphere.please see link to earthfiles for more information :)http://www.earthfiles.com/
peace ~x)o(x~
tim

[HelioHelix]

wow thanks for sharing that raynebowolf,

i googled the name of the planet to find some other news sources for more information, the first link i saw was a cnn one and i gotta love how they open up the article -


(cnn) -- astronomers announced this week they found a water-rich and relatively nearby planet that's similar in size to earth.
while the planet probably has too thick of an atmosphere and is too hot to support life similar to that found on earth, the discovery is being heralded as a major breakthrough in humanity's search for life on other planets.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/tech/12/16/super.earth.discovery/index.html

i think that it is hilarious that despite the planet being called a "super earth" the msm immediately denounces any possibility for life on such a planet.

another quote,


"nature is just far more inventive in making planets than we were imagining," he said.

i think this ties in with the logos of our galaxy that makes it possible for humanoid life to crop up just about anywhere it can. these little nuggets show that more and more people are opening up to the possibilities of intelligent life elsewhere.

here is another article from the telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6826763/waterworld-planet-six-times-the-size-of-earth-discovered.html

[Dkrtist]

"while the planet probably has too thick of an atmosphere and is too hot to support life similar to that found on earth, the discovery is being heralded as a major breakthrough in humanity's search for life on other planets."


i believe that the news of this "super -earth" is just a way of preparing us for disclosure, as david has stated. little by little, more & more tidbits are starting to come out but this next part had me shaking my head in disbelief:

" in a way, the newly discovered planet was sitting right in front of astronomers' faces, just waiting for them to look. instead of using high-powered telescopes attached to satellites, they spotted the planet using an amateur-sized, 16-inch telescope on the ground."

really guys? wow! they must think we, the dominoes, as i like to refer to the public, are really naive enough to believe that it was "right in front of their faces" all this time and they just didn't see it. the thing that worries me is that many will believe it, but, alas we have sites like david's and project camelot to help us wade through all the bull**** and get right to the core. :d thank you.

[evolving]

a planet-like object about eight times the size of jupiter is locked in orbit around very young star, though the exact relationship between the two remains a mystery.

circling 300 times farther from the star than earth orbits the sun, the object could be a planet, perhaps one that was catapulted out into the nether regions after a collision or close encounter with an as-yet undetected sibling planet.

"there is no theory for how a true planet can form at 300 au (astronomical units, with one unit equal to 93 million miles, the mean distance between earth and the sun). it's not really a lack of imagination. it's a lack of physics," california institute of technology astronomer john johnson told discovery news.

http://news.discovery.com/space/2010/07/02/exoplanet-star-zoom.jpg (one image removed is available when you read the article...to comply with forum 2-link rule)


read the entire story here (http://news.discovery.com/space/star-orbit-planet.html).
(http://news.discovery.com/space/star-orbit-planet.html)

[ILoveCoffee]

i saw this article. but i think it wasn't just one earthlike planet. rather, it stated they found eight planets like our earth. then, i came across something that i don't know if it's true or not. it was about some hotel in space. it really said that there is a hotel in space, but it either too expensive to stay there or too expensive to get there.

[Felicatra]

rich exoplanet system discovered

"astronomers have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets that orbit a star called hd 10180, which is much like our own sun.

the star is 127 light years away, in the southern constellation of hydrus."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11070991

[Natho]

rich exoplanet system discovered

"astronomers have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets that orbit a star called hd 10180, which is much like our own sun.

the star is 127 light years away, in the southern constellation of hydrus."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11070991

thats amazing news, cheers for sharing :).
id just like to add that in our worlds current state of advancement, it would seem obviouse that scientists are in search of planets like these and others for the use of 'materials' in the form of mining etc. consumption is a prodominant factor in our world, thus we bleed her dry of minerals and lumber for further development. i just hope that when the time comes and we are able to reach these places that we use this for a better purpose rather than consumpton. it occured to me that such advancement of other beings in our universe would have reached such a point like ourselves and moreso possibly, and that certain 'planets' are used stricktly as gardens or reserves for wildlife. i believe this should be up there on the priority list.

[ds37ds]

exoplanets cast doubt on astronomical theories

planets in other solar systems are set to change ideas on how worlds form

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101206/full/news.2010.655.html


astronomers who study how planets form are scratching their heads after two studies have shown that all is not as theory would predict in the world of other-worldly worlds.

the papers, both published online in nature today, concern planets outside our own solar system. the existence of one confounds current ideas on planet formation, whereas measurements of the other's atmosphere throw into doubt theories about atmospheric composition and its relationship to a planet's interior

[Tim Bravo]

exoplanets cast doubt on astronomical theories

planets in other solar systems are set to change ideas on how worlds form

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101206/full/news.2010.655.html


astronomers who study how planets form are scratching their heads after two studies have shown that all is not as theory would predict in the world of other-worldly worlds.

the papers, both published online in nature today, concern planets outside our own solar system. the existence of one confounds current ideas on planet formation, whereas measurements of the other's atmosphere throw into doubt theories about atmospheric composition and its relationship to a planet's interior

the following is from the url you posted:

"marois thinks that only one — not both — of the formation mechanisms can be responsible for the system, because the planets have similar masses and seem to be locked in orbital resonance, meaning that the times that they take to orbit the star are related in ratios, much like the frequency of musical notes on a piano keyboard. he suggests that the planets probably migrated to their current positions after being formed."

hellooooooo! law of one, anyone?!

from david's introduction to "shift of the ages (http://divinecosmos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=434&itemid=30)":

we now know that the cu is the underlying structure behind all physical matter that will continue to become more and more widely understood as physicists study what are now being referred to as "supersymmetric particles." and as we already stated, we now have extensive evidence that a solar system and a galaxy are other arrangements for a cu as well.

this is why the spacing between the planets in our solar system corresponds precisely to the "diatonic ratios" found in the musical octave, as well as why the galaxy is a set of spiraling arms emanating from an energetic, multidimensional center point or "black hole." the harmonic principles and properties of the cu govern the structure and organization of these dynamic astronomical entities.

[Xisto]

as science gets keener, new extrasolar planets will be listed here

nasa: 54 new planets found
an orbiting nasa telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, spotting more than 50 potential planets that appear to be in the habitable zone. (feb. 2)

http://buzzroom.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/918/

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

super earth discovered:
http://www.space.com/12917-16-super-earth-discovered.html



the largest exoplanet ever discovered is also one of the strangest and theoretically should not even exist, scientists say. dubbed tres-4, the planet is about 1.7 times the size of jupiter and belongs to a small subclass of so-called puffy planets that have extremely low densities. the planet is located about 1,400 light years away from earth and zips around its parent star in only three and a half days.
http://www.space.com/159-strangest-alien-planets.html

love,
ra ma

[Chemical Sandman]

wow! very exciting! full link and article below :)



http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepscicon-briefing.html


nasa's kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. ten of these candidates are near-earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their host star. candidates require follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets.

the newly confirmed planet, kepler-22b, is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. the planet is about 2.4 times the radius of earth. scientists don't yet know if kepler-22b has a predominantly rocky, gaseous or liquid composition, but its discovery is a step closer to finding earth-like planets.

previous research hinted at the existence of near-earth-size planets in habitable zones, but clear confirmation proved elusive. two other small planets orbiting stars smaller and cooler than our sun recently were confirmed on the very edges of the habitable zone, with orbits more closely resembling those of venus and mars.

"this is a major milestone on the road to finding earth's twin," said douglas hudgins, kepler program scientist at nasa headquarters in washington. "kepler's results continue to demonstrate the importance of nasa's science missions, which aim to answer some of the biggest questions about our place in the universe."

kepler discovers planets and planet candidates by measuring dips in the brightness of more than 150,000 stars to search for planets that cross in front, or "transit," the stars. kepler requires at least three transits to verify a signal as a planet.

"fortune smiled upon us with the detection of this planet," said william borucki, kepler principal investigator at nasa ames research center at moffett field, calif., who led the team that discovered kepler-22b. "the first transit was captured just three days after we declared the spacecraft operationally ready. we witnessed the defining third transit over the 2010 holiday season."

the kepler science team uses ground-based telescopes and the spitzer space telescope to review observations on planet candidates the spacecraft finds. the star field that kepler observes in the constellations cygnus and lyra can only be seen from ground-based observatories in spring through early fall. the data from these other observations help determine which candidates can be validated as planets.

kepler-22b is located 600 light-years away. while the planet is larger than earth, its orbit of 290 days around a sun-like star resembles that of our world. the planet's host star belongs to the same class as our sun, called g-type, although it is slightly smaller and cooler.

of the 54 habitable zone planet candidates reported in february 2011, kepler-22b is the first to be confirmed. this milestone will be published in the astrophysical journal.

the kepler team is hosting its inaugural science conference at ames dec. 5-9, announcing 1,094 new planet candidate discoveries. since the last catalog was released in february, the number of planet candidates identified by kepler has increased by 89 percent and now totals 2,326. of these, 207 are approximately earth-size, 680 are super earth-size, 1,181 are neptune-size, 203 are jupiter-size and 55 are larger than jupiter.

the findings, based on observations conducted may 2009 to september 2010, show a dramatic increase in the numbers of smaller-size planet candidates.

kepler observed many large planets in small orbits early in its mission, which were reflected in the february data release. having had more time to observe three transits of planets with longer orbital periods, the new data suggest that planets one to four times the size of earth may be abundant in the galaxy.

the number of earth-size and super earth-size candidates has increased by more than 200 and 140 percent since february, respectively.

there are 48 planet candidates in their star's habitable zone. while this is a decrease from the 54 reported in february, the kepler team has applied a stricter definition of what constitutes a habitable zone in the new catalog, to account for the warming effect of atmospheres, which would move the zone away from the star, out to longer orbital periods.

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

thanks you chemical sandman, for the info and welcome to the forum!
i was reading about it in the morning, before heading over here. very interesting and ground breaking stuff we have here!

love and light,
ra ma

[Chris Hamilton]

prompted by numerous you-tube videos declaring the imminent coming of this planet/dwarf star or whatever it is that is supposed to destroy earth in 2012, i have researched and found the original scientists, houck and neugebauer, who, back in 1983, had detected 'something' in the infra-red spectrum which the new age sensationalists immediately turned into nibiru, planet x or a dwarf star.

in bad astronomy, phil plait researched this here: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/science.html
and here is his quote:


i did something that never occurred to the doomsayers: i sent an email to the two astronomers asking what happened back in '83. gerry neugebauer replied, and told me the real poop.
iras was designed to look in the far-infrared, well past what our eyes see. at the time, no one was really sure what it would find. to everyone's surprise, several bright point sources were found that did not correspond to anything seen on optical images taken of the same areas. in the press conference, the two scientists said that these objects could be almost anything, from a tenth planet in our solar system to distant galaxies.
guess which it turned out to be? sure enough, much deeper images were taken, and some of the objects were found to be dense gas clouds in our own galaxy, while others turned out to be very distant galaxies. in fact, these observations heralded the discovery of a new type of object: ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ulirgs). these are galaxies in which there is a burst of stars being born. the cocoons of dust in which the stars are enshrouded generates copious infrared, which is what was detected by iras. they published these results in the prestigious astrophysical journal, and you can even read it yourself.
so iras did not see nibiru, planet x, or anything of the sort, despite the claims of the doomcriers. of course, they now claim that nasa is clamping down on the press for planet x. the original post article, they say, was hastily retracted due to pressure from the nasa thugs. of course, the doomcriers have absolutely no evidence of this (because, of course, this claim is wrong), but they continue to state it as if it is fact. it is nothing of the sort. they like to make claims like this for many reasons: it generates an "us vs. them" mentality, which is great for conspiracies, and it helps sell books and/or videos. but it's wrong at best and a lie at worst.
a good page with a lot of detail about the iras observations is written by tom chester, an astronomer on the original iras team that found the mystery sources. straight from the horse's mouth, if you will.
you can also read more about iras and planet x at the planet x and the pole shift website, which also has a copy of the original washington post article.

also, here is the link for the astophisical journal in which the two scienists deduce that this "image" they saw was actually distant galaxies: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1985apj...290l...5h&db_key=ast&high=3ccf23290006822

hope this helps!! chris