New planet found

matkeys · 15 Jun 2010 at 23:09

sanaxe1 said:
Not quite sure how to tell you this but the universe is a pretty large place.

never....

but 40 light years away, come on they've either being getting drunk when it passed there lens or its not true, and even in wiki, although its not always true to the word states its made up of helium and hydrogen, last time i checked they weren't the elements humans lived in

Pixel said:
I think it's only just recently that the methods for detecting planets like this have been discovered, that's why over the last few years we've had so many new planet discoveries.

fair comment

Le_Petit_Lapin · 15 Jun 2010 at 23:11

Close?! CLOSE?! Its not close! They make it out like its like a quick walk to the shops kind of distance away.

Fenris · 15 Jun 2010 at 23:13

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Close?! CLOSE?! Its not close! They make it out like its like a quick walk to the shops kind of distance away.

Well in universal terms I suppose it's barely a step from our proverbial front door when you consider the further known object is something around 13 billion light years away.

I say known, it's probably not ever there any more.

jimmymctavish · 15 Jun 2010 at 23:17

180,000 years to get there if we hopped on the fastest ever manmade object - helios as it passed close to the sun...

Cybermyk · 15 Jun 2010 at 23:19

Maybe we should start up a thread for the first OcUK GJ1214b meet? I can't make it if it's a on a Thursday though.

Allnamestaken · 15 Jun 2010 at 23:30

Nibirus that planet those hippies the galactic federation of light religion fags believe there saviours are.

Duno if anyones heard of them or seen there retarded videos on youtoob.

Frapple · 15 Jun 2010 at 23:33

Not that far away, only 40 light years.

I'll go fill up with petrol then!

Amp34 · 15 Jun 2010 at 23:37

jimmymctavish said:
No he was saying that since the planet is twice the size of earth the boiling point of water is higher. But I can't be bothered to work out if it's a few degrees difference or the hundreds that they were talking about. It's in the right direction though, although they couldnt agree on whether it was fahrenheit or celsius they were talking about

So he's not quite as big a gimp as he sounded then.

(As I said I didn't watch the video so had no knowledge of why he said it!)

Pixel said:
I think it's only just recently that the methods for detecting planets like this have been discovered, that's why over the last few years we've had so many new planet discoveries.

Essentially scientists are using the most powerful telescopes to measure miniscule changes in the light output from stars, extrapolating that into panet size and orbit. Shifts in the light colour can also tell them the major constituents of the atmosphere.

So it's not like someone with their little argos bought telescope could see them and explains why we have only recently been able to find planets orbiting other stars.

matkeys · 16 Jun 2010 at 00:37

jimmymctavish said:
180,000 years to get there if we hopped on the fastest ever manmade object - helios as it passed close to the sun...

it would take 6 years to circle the earth to at least 60% of the light speed then once inline to the target would take another 5 years to reach 99% light speed, as physics and all that prevents things going faster then light like a galactic speed limit

any one watch Steven hawkin's programme, very interesting even if your not a geek or what ever

robgmun · 16 Jun 2010 at 01:29

So more like 78 years

Amnesia · 16 Jun 2010 at 01:30

a new holiday resort where we can surf....my idea so my planet,...you are all not invited.

matkeys · 16 Jun 2010 at 02:08

I wonder if nasa clams to own space or the things like plants, stars etc they name

sanaxe1 · 16 Jun 2010 at 02:43

matkeys said:
never....

but 40 light years away, come on they've either being getting drunk when it passed there lens or its not true, and even in wiki, although its not always true to the word states its made up of helium and hydrogen, last time i checked they weren't the elements humans lived in

fair comment

Well take this example :

They Take a tiny area of a tiny section of the sky which looks empty.
:

They leave the satalite to collect light for 10 days. On the Selected Black area.
This is what they see.

There are aproximatly 10,000 GALAXIES in this picture. Each galaxy having hundreds of BILLIONS of stars and god knows how many of those stars have planets.

And all that was from 1 very small part of a very tiny bit of the night sky.