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@sephiroth | 6 March 19 |
I just thought about this. If aliens ever do decide to invade/visit our planet, they have our unique microbial life to contend with. Look at what happened to the Native Americans. And that's on the same planet. So they have to 'terraform' this planet in ways undreamed of. So best they not bother. |
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@sephiroth | 6 March 19 |
@ bozzalad - 6.03.19 - 02:04pm FIERY FIND Massive hot Jupiter 60 times BIGGER than the Sun is first exoplanet spotted by Nasas Kepler space telescope The new 'exoplanet', referred to as Kepler-1658b, has had a long and rocky road to planet status confirmation Find that hard to believe about the planet size. Have to dig in a little deeper.. If it were that big it would've become a star long ago, or merged with its parent star. |
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@shadow27 | 6 March 19 |
Brown dwarf?
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@obi_jon | 6 March 19 |
@ 3mel - 6.03.19 - 03:49pm hey if you like science and space things and videos that frequently cover ways in which we could meet our doom check a channel called KURZGESAGT (yes that's really it's name), it's delightfully brilliant ![]() try this wormhole video on for size Love their stuff. ![]() http://youtu.be/Hug0rfFC_L8 |
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@3mel | 6 March 19 |
hmm... needs more birds
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@sephiroth | 7 March 19 |
@ shadow27 - 6.03.19 - 09:44pm Brown dwarf? ''Kepler-1658 (not Kepler-1658b, aka the planet) is 50 percent more massive and three times larger than the Sun. The newly confirmed planet orbits at a distance of only twice the star's diameter, making it one of the closest-in planets around a more evolved star - one that resembles a future version of our Sun. Standing on the planet, the star would appear 60 times larger in diameter than the Sun as seen from Earth.'' Source |
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@sephiroth | 7 March 19 |
@ sephiroth - 7.03.19 - 12:28am ''Kepler-1658 (not Kepler-1658b, aka the planet) is 50 percent more massive and three times larger than the Sun. The newly confirmed planet orbits at a distance of only twice the star's diameter, making it one of the closest-in planets around a more evolved star - one that resembles a future version of our Sun. Standing on the planet, the star would appear 60 times larger in diameter than the Sun as seen from Earth.'' Source There's a hashtag in that link and won't work. Here's another, same article: https |
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@3mel | 7 March 19 |
ahh that's more like it
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@sephiroth | 7 March 19 |
''The Kepler team originally thought the star was about 1.1 times the width of the sun, which would make the planet about the size of Neptune. But then astronomers saw a second dip in starlight as the world passed behind the star, called a secondary eclipse. That second dip shouldn't be visible for such a small planet, so the exoplanet candidate was dismissed as a false alarm.'' ''KOI 4 is actually about three times the width of the sun, meaning its planet would be about three times as large as first estimated - or a bit larger than Jupiter, the team found. That's big enough for the world to block enough starlight that Kepler would notice that secondary eclipse, Chontos said March 5 in a presentation at NASAs Kepler and K2 science conference in Glendale, Calif. ''After the findings were double checked by astronomers using ground-based telescopes, the star was renamed Kepler 1658, and the planet Kepler 1658b, adding the system to Kepler's long list of discoveries. ''It feels really cool to have that first planet there,'' Chontos said. Source |
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@sephiroth | 7 March 19 |
@ bozzalad - 6.03.19 - 02:04pm FIERY FIND Massive hot Jupiter 60 times BIGGER than the Sun is first exoplanet spotted by Nasas Kepler space telescope The new 'exoplanet', referred to as Kepler-1658b, has had a long and rocky road to planet status confirmation Clickbait. Noticed the same headlines. If you read into it, it's not so. |
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