magma101
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| 14 Nov 2008 06:56 PM |
Nov. 13, 2008 -- Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system.
The images show four likely planets that appear as specks of white that are nearly indecipherable except to the most eagle-eyed astronomers. But it is evidence of the existence of something far more cosmic than a blurry dot.
"It is a step on that road to understand if there are other planets like Earth and potentially life out there," said astronomer Bruce Macintosh of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, one of two teams of out-of-this-solar system photographers.
None of the four giant gaseous planets are remotely habitable or remotely like Earth. But they raise the possibility of others more hospitable, and Macintosh said it's only a matter of time before "we get a dot that's blue and Earthlike."
The two groups of astronomers -- one using the Hubble Space Telescope and the other using two ground telescopes -- have captured images of the exoplanets, which are what scientists call planets that don't circle our sun. Both studies were being published in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science.
In the past 13 years, scientists have discovered more than 300 planets outside our solar system, but they have done so indirectly, by measuring changes in gravity, speed or light around stars |
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BioIron
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| 14 Nov 2008 06:56 PM |
| nice copy and pasting noob |
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| 14 Nov 2008 06:58 PM |
bioiron noob.
Thats would i would say. |
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:00 PM |
| nice, you know how to sue the copy and paste tools! |
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magma101
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:00 PM |
| i worked very hard on that |
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:00 PM |
'Aliens' are in the 4th demension. So we can't see them or their planets! ^_^ |
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magma101
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:02 PM |
| there are only 2 demensions. |
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Pugethey
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:36 PM |
| Not true - there were a total of 318 extra-stellar planets observed before these were. |
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:39 PM |
| no they did not!!! they discovered planets curcling around a star!!! |
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Pugethey
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:40 PM |
Oh come one people:
There are four dimensions within our universe:
*Length *Width *Depth *Time
Yes, time is a dimension. There are only 3 spacial dimensions (length, width, and depth; x,y,z).
Aliens do not live in "another dimension". That's silly. |
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Pugethey
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:43 PM |
| Sorry, I meant to say "Come *on* people." |
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:44 PM |
| there may be nobody knows except them >.> =/ oh they did see a star about 3.90000000006 miles away and they have planets curcling around it....it said on the news |
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asae
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:44 PM |
There are really 11 dimensions. We can only see 3 of them.
~ONE SHOT, ONE KILL~ ~SNIPING IS ALWAYS PERSONAL~ ~IT'S SIR TO YOU SOLDIER~ ~Move out, GO GO GO~ |
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Shackel13
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:45 PM |
| That's not the first image you moron. |
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Pugethey
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:46 PM |
| 11 dimensions as per the M-theory, which has yet to be proven. |
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Shackel13
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:48 PM |
| 11 dimensions? Pfft, yeah right. |
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WeAsE1l04
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:49 PM |
| look, people, theres no point in starting a flame war over some meticuously typed-up story! even if it isnt true, he still put it there. but, be serious people! do you ACTUALY believe in diminsions! |
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asae
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:50 PM |
What do you think the "D" stands for in 3-D? It stands for dimension!
~ONE SHOT, ONE KILL~ ~SNIPING IS ALWAYS PERSONAL~ ~IT'S SIR TO YOU SOLDIER~ ~Move out, GO GO GO~ |
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Pugethey
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:52 PM |
| There's no point in asking if we "believe" in dimensions, seeing as they are proven to exist. Unless, of course, you mean "dimensions" as another word for "spaces", in which case they do not fall under the proper definition for a "physical" or "mathematical" dimension. |
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:53 PM |
| yeah like if we were in the 3rd demintion we would be 3-D but we are in the 1st demention. |
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asae
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| 14 Nov 2008 07:54 PM |
3-D is: up,down, left, right, forward, back! 2d: up, down, left, right. 1d: left, right. |
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magma101
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| 14 Nov 2008 08:52 PM |
3-D is: up,down, left, right, forward, back! 2d: up, down, left, right. 1d: left, right. |
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GFink
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