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Of course it is not the first Earth sized planet. It's significant because its the FIRST EARTH SIZED PLANET IN A HABITABLE ZONE OF THE STAR IT ORBITS.
originally posted by: unb3k44n7
a reply to: JadeStar
Of course it is not the first Earth sized planet. It's significant because its the FIRST EARTH SIZED PLANET IN A HABITABLE ZONE OF THE STAR IT ORBITS.
Although true, That's not what either the article on my thread about it says nor this article says.
Jesus Diaz
Filed to: INTERESTING. EARTH. PLANETS, WORLDS, ALIENS
3/24/14 12:44am
The search for a new Earth outside the solar system seems to be nearing its end. NASA's Ames Research Center astronomer Thomas Barclay has found a planet nearly the size of Earth in the habitable zone of a star in the Milky Way.
Barclay's announcement at the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System conference hasn't been officially published yet, so the details are scarce. We know that:
1. It's an M1 red dwarf star (maybe we should call it Krypton.)
2. It's a goldilocks planet, orbiting within the zone where liquid water (and life) can exist.
3. It's radius is only 1.1 times the size of Earth. Until now the minimum size for a new Earth candidate was 1.4 times—Kepler-62f, which orbits a star about 1,200 light years away from us.
4. At least five other planets are orbiting this red dwarf.
So. Still blatantly misleading any way you look at it.
They both say planet in habitable zone, which leads anyone to the notion that It's any of the 1000+ earth-like, earth-sized planets that have been found up to date in the "habitable zone"
"Habitable zone" is NOT the definition of that red dwarf star's 'orbit' at which this "new" planet has been located.
A Habitable zone refers to the area in space at which life can potentially live, also known at the moment, as the Goldilocks Zone.
And no my information in not full of errors
and nice coffee mug. You can buy one anywhere online.
There's idiots with masters degrees and brilliant minds with high school GEDs. Doesn't mean squat where you 'claim' to work (based on a coffee mug)
Get off yourself. Nobodies impressed and nobody particularly cares.
originally posted by: SixX18
a reply to: JadeStar
I want to know how an artist can tell us how the planet looks. I don't believe it looks like they show. All they can tell is there is a tiny source of light, or more likely the shadow of the planet as it passes between us and it's sun.
Anyone have any input on planets they find, and then draw, that are hundreds to millions of light-years away?
The Scientific Exoplanets Renderer (SER) is a new scientific software tool to generate photorealistic visualizations of exoplanets. It uses physical properties from exoplanets and their parent stars to generate possible scenarios for their visual appearance as seem from space. Many parameters can be adjusted based on estimates of their atmospheric and surface physics and chemistry. It includes the reconstruction of realistic atmospheric clouds motion and weather effects.
SER is specially designed to reconstruct Earth-like exoplanets, either rocky or ocean in nature, but it is also able to generate visuals for gas giants and stars. SER can be used to interpret and visualize results from General Circulation Models (GCM), reconstruct light-curves, albedo studies, and stellar transit simulations, including moons. Current test models of SER operate in the visual range but future developments will include a wider spectrum.
SER is a scientific tool and it tries to reproduce the physical and chemical interactions of light with matter at planetary scales. This is a time consuming process for computers and not suitable for fast or interactive views of exoplanets. Below are listed some nice educational alternatives for quick visuals of exoplanets.
originally posted by: unb3k44n7
If you want to prance around the playground and play "he said she said"/ "they started it" we can play that game.
Starting with the fact that you attacked my post 'first'. My post at which wasn't even directed at you or for you.
At which you then took it, ran with it, and made it into your own personal pissing contest in the same breath that you said It's not a pissing contest. And then continued to run with it with more personal attacks and a false sense of superiority display.
So get the F* off me. If your jobs so important get to work and off here. It's noon, go look at some space trajectory models or something.
I'm such a jerk for initiating a personal argument that I didn't initiate. (LOL)
Now that I've wasted a half hour on BS.
originally posted by: unb3k44n7
It's annoying that I posted a thread on it a month ago and because there is another thread about it a month later with pretty uploaded pictures/displays and a misleading title that makes it sound more exciting that the same topic that was posted a month before it gets a shoulder turned to it.
source not sure why you're getting upset about this thread. www.abovetopsecret.com...
The search for a new Earth outside the solar system seems to be nearing its end. NASA's Ames Research Center astronomer Thomas Barclay has found a planet nearly the size of Earth in the habitable zone of a star in the Milky Way.
originally posted by: JadeStar
Here's something interesting.
Kepler 186f was also known as KOI 571.05 before it was confirmed (All Kepler unconfirmed planets have KOI XXnumbers, the confirmed ones become Kepler XX numbered planets)
Here is Kepler 186f on a table of unconfirmed (prior to today) planets with high ESI (Earth Similarity Index) numbers.
Notice I highlighted in green at the bottom with Kepler 186f written in red next to it:
What this says is that there are a whole lot better candidate planets in the pipeline waiting to be confirmed or announced
Of course some may be false positives and eliminated entirely but there should at least be a few more announcements like today's this year.
source
Standing on the shore at dusk, you see four planets and an orange sun near the horizon. At night, dazzling ribbons of auroras snake across the sky. You are on Kepler-186f, the smallest known exoplanet thought capable of supporting life.
originally posted by: SLAYER69
Has the thought ever occurred to anybody else that we 'The Earth' may have already been spotted in our 'goldielocks zone' by others a long time ago? I mean, if we with our meager 21st Century Tech can do it why couldn't other even more advanced Civilizations have spotted us in ours?