ExtraSolar Planets

[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/2010/1012....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/2010/1012....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":

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-...iscovered.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/ke...-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...x/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/np...ccf23290006822

hope this helps!! chris