i kinda like earth 2
In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler spacecraft in order to find Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Well, the results are now in and I’ve got goosebumps just thinking about it.
And the verdict is…good! “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,” they write on their site. “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 habitable planet has been dubbed Kepler-22b (I dubbed it Kittenland but whatever) is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth but scientists need further study to find out what kind of surface it has. You may remember, NASA recently found Kepler-16b, which has two suns leading many geeks to make comparisons with Tattooine and/or Galifrey. With the discovery of Kepler-22b, I think it’s time to call up Earth 2 on Netflix instant watch.
“This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth’s twin,” said Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington...
In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler spacecraft in order to find Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Well, the results are now in and I’ve got goosebumps just thinking about it.
And the verdict is…good! “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,” they write on their site. “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 habitable planet has been dubbed Kepler-22b (I dubbed it Kittenland but whatever) is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth but scientists need further study to find out what kind of surface it has. You may remember, NASA recently found Kepler-16b, which has two suns leading many geeks to make comparisons with Tattooine and/or Galifrey. With the discovery of Kepler-22b, I think it’s time to call up Earth 2 on Netflix instant watch.
“This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth’s twin,” said Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington...
i kinda like earth 2
In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler spacecraft in order to find Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Well, the results are now in and I’ve got goosebumps just thinking about it.
And the verdict is…good! “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,” they write on their site. “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 habitable planet has been dubbed Kepler-22b (I dubbed it Kittenland but whatever) is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth but scientists need further study to find out what kind of surface it has. You may remember, NASA recently found Kepler-16b, which has two suns leading many geeks to make comparisons with Tattooine and/or Galifrey. With the discovery of Kepler-22b, I think it’s time to call up Earth 2 on Netflix instant watch.
“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, named for the 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler, pulls 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” and requires three transits before it will confirm 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.”
Kepler-22b is 600 light-years away and has a 290 day orbit around its sun. That sun is slightly smaller and cooler than our own but still G-type but Kepler-22b is only the first in what is likely to be many more confirmations of possible habitable planets.
“The Kepler team is hosting its inaugural science conference at Ames Dec. 5-9, announcing 1,094 new planet candidate discoveries,” says NASA. “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 tremendous growth in the number of Earth-size candidates tells us that we’re honing in on the planets Kepler was designed to detect: those that are not only Earth-size, but also are potentially habitable,” said Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. “The more data we collect, the keener our eye for finding the smallest planets out at longer orbital periods.”
(more)In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler spacecraft in order to find Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Well, the results are now in and I’ve got goosebumps just thinking about it.
And the verdict is…good! “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,” they write on their site. “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 habitable planet has been dubbed Kepler-22b (I dubbed it Kittenland but whatever) is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth but scientists need further study to find out what kind of surface it has. You may remember, NASA recently found Kepler-16b, which has two suns leading many geeks to make comparisons with Tattooine and/or Galifrey. With the discovery of Kepler-22b, I think it’s time to call up Earth 2 on Netflix instant watch.
“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, named for the 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler, pulls 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” and requires three transits before it will confirm 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.”
Kepler-22b is 600 light-years away and has a 290 day orbit around its sun. That sun is slightly smaller and cooler than our own but still G-type but Kepler-22b is only the first in what is likely to be many more confirmations of possible habitable planets.
“The Kepler team is hosting its inaugural science conference at Ames Dec. 5-9, announcing 1,094 new planet candidate discoveries,” says NASA. “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 tremendous growth in the number of Earth-size candidates tells us that we’re honing in on the planets Kepler was designed to detect: those that are not only Earth-size, but also are potentially habitable,” said Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. “The more data we collect, the keener our eye for finding the smallest planets out at longer orbital periods.”
baha.
....which means ground, soil, and Earth :)
I bet you think there's not a single drop of water elsewhere in the universe too, right?
ignoring the fact that there's water on Mars, Titan, Europa, Ganemede, Callisto, the moon, comets and that water is one of the most abundant elements in the universe aside from hydrogen and helium...
Why wouldn't life be possible in solar systems other then our own? We've already found many other solar systems.
THE HELL DO YOU CALL THAT THEN? That moon of Jupiter is famous for being COVERED IN ICE. you know what ice is, right? It's called "Frozen water".
Good graciousness, I bet you think that there really IS a crystaline dome up there and that the Earth is actually flat!
Go read a book! I don't mean the damn Bible either, you creatard! Go read a basic science textbook, I mean the kind they give THIRD GRADERS because you obviously have a LOT of catching up to do! Your education is very obviously sub-par when compared to the average adult, given that you are 40 years old and still believe with absolute certanty that which cannot be demonstrably proven, but disbelieve everything that CAN!
Get your head out of your comfortable fantasies and take a look at the REAL world around you! Yes it's a terrible place some times, but it also has alot of NATURAL beauty that didn't require invisible magic men to create it out of nothing!
I'm sorry if I come off as harsh but I have no patience for your kind of theist. Blind, irrational faith against all evidence and against all reason really sets me off. Your kind of people are the kind that, if you where claiming to be Muslim instead of Christian, would be lopping off heads wi...
THE HELL DO YOU CALL THAT THEN? That moon of Jupiter is famous for being COVERED IN ICE. you know what ice is, right? It's called "Frozen water".
Good graciousness, I bet you think that there really IS a crystaline dome up there and that the Earth is actually flat!
Go read a book! I don't mean the damn Bible either, you creatard! Go read a basic science textbook, I mean the kind they give THIRD GRADERS because you obviously have a LOT of catching up to do! Your education is very obviously sub-par when compared to the average adult, given that you are 40 years old and still believe with absolute certanty that which cannot be demonstrably proven, but disbelieve everything that CAN!
Get your head out of your comfortable fantasies and take a look at the REAL world around you! Yes it's a terrible place some times, but it also has alot of NATURAL beauty that didn't require invisible magic men to create it out of nothing!
I'm sorry if I come off as harsh but I have no patience for your kind of theist. Blind, irrational faith against all evidence and against all reason really sets me off. Your kind of people are the kind that, if you where claiming to be Muslim instead of Christian, would be lopping off heads with dull swords and sending children to be suicide bombers!
Wake up and deal with the REAL WORLD like a responsible adult! I can't believe I have to say this to someone ten years older then me.
The Bible is true, too, whether you want to believe it or not. There's no life anywhere else but planet earth. We haven't found lots of water on any planet in our universe to date. Go talk to Nasa, and maybe they can knock some sense into you.
It's Old Norse for 'the world' and I'm from Norway - I'd want to involve my part of the world somehow :)
Gaia - Greek for Earth
Erde - German for Earth
Erdh - Arab for Earth
Geb - Egyptian God of Earth
In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler spacecraft in order to find Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Well, the results are now in and I’ve got goosebumps just thinking about it.
And the verdict is…good! “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,” they write on their site. “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 habitable planet has been dubbed Kepler-22b (I dubbed it Kittenland but whatever) is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth but scientists need further study to find out what kind of surface it has. You may remember, NASA recently found Kepler-16b, which has two suns leading many geeks to make comparisons with Tattooine and/or Galifrey. With the discovery of Kepler-22b, I think it’s time to call up Earth 2 on Netflix instant watch.
“This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth’s twin,” said Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington...
In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler spacecraft in order to find Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Well, the results are now in and I’ve got goosebumps just thinking about it.
And the verdict is…good! “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,” they write on their site. “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 habitable planet has been dubbed Kepler-22b (I dubbed it Kittenland but whatever) is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth but scientists need further study to find out what kind of surface it has. You may remember, NASA recently found Kepler-16b, which has two suns leading many geeks to make comparisons with Tattooine and/or Galifrey. With the discovery of Kepler-22b, I think it’s time to call up Earth 2 on Netflix instant watch.
“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, named for the 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler, pulls 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” and requires three transits before it will confirm 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.”
Kepler-22b is 600 light-years away and has a 290 day orbit around its sun. That sun is slightly smaller and cooler than our own but still G-type but Kepler-22b is only the first in what is likely to be many more confirmations of possible habitable planets.
“The Kepler team is hosting its inaugural science conference at Ames Dec. 5-9, announcing 1,094 new planet candidate discoveries,” says NASA. “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 tremendous growth in the number of Earth-size candidates tells us that we’re honing in on the planets Kepler was designed to detect: those that are not only Earth-size, but also are potentially habitable,” said Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. “The more data we collect, the keener our eye for finding the smallest planets out at longer orbital periods.”