Giant 'Blob' Found in Outer Space

[Woozie]

I missed this topic yesterday due to watching 8 episodes of 24 in a row.

[Mizango]

For that you are forgiven. I've been there done that lol.

[Talka]

Spoiler: show

http://rigel.csi.cuny.edu/rowan/lect...Nebula-HST.jpg

[Flattus]

Obviously shopped.

[Crouchingllama]

Obviously shopped.

My, what beautiful eye you has.

[Flattus]

My, what beautiful eye you has.

thx

[Tagus]

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

... and miniature American flags for others.

[Kuya]

Yes I agree, deep space is such a lovely place

No it isn't.

[Tajin]

It is if you are galactus. Article image sucks though.

[Crouchingllama]

Discovery News is the bomb.

[Xno Kappa]

When they say 800 million years they mean 6000 right?

[Crouchingllama]

Only in the Bible Belt...

[Mizango]

When they say 800 million years they mean 6000 right?

Exactly.

Dinosaurs never existed, Cave men never existed etc.... that little book certainly delivers.

[Colenzo]

Spoiler: show

simpsons did it

[Rhinox]

Spoiler: show

OJ simpson did it

Correct

[alexisamonster]

Didnt they just recently find 2 new earth like planets? Yup found it.

New Earth-like Planet 'Habitable'
Irene Klotz, Discovery News


April 24, 2007 — Astronomers have found the first Earth-sized world circling its mother star at a distance suitable for life. It also has good prospects for liquid surface water — believed to be a key ingredient for life.

"This planet will most probably be a very important target of the future space missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life," said Xavier Delfosse, with Grenoble University in France.


"It is not possible with current telescopes and instruments yet," Xavier Bonfils, an astronomer with the Lisbonne Observatory in Portugal, wrote in an e-mail to Discovery News. "But in the next decade, we may have the tools to answer this question."

The planet, which is about 50 percent larger than Earth, circles a star in the constellation Libra known as Gliese 581, about 20.5 light-years away. Light travels in a vacuum at about 187,000 miles per second.

Astronomers previously have found a Neptune-sized world circling Gliese 581, as well as strong evidence for a third planet about eight times the mass of Earth.

The new planet, which is the smallest planet beyond our solar system found to date, circles its star 14 times closer than Earth orbits the sun. But because Gliese 581 is smaller and colder than our sun, the system's so-called habitability zone, where liquid water and thus life is possible, is closer to the mother star than in our solar system.

i hope when they get the technology to look closer at the planet, they find a guy with a telescope looking back at us

[Ramor]

would be awesome, then like in futurama we just wave and they're waving except it's not the edge of the universe and they're not a western version of us

[Chicomagiko]

Obviously, "God spilled some Jelly while making Jesus his lunch for Heaven school"

^ what my neighbor told his daughters. >_>;

[Heian]

Star Wars Will Be Real! HALLEJUAH!

Fix'd

[Bweigelt]

Didnt they just recently find 2 new earth like planets? Yup found it.

New Earth-like Planet 'Habitable'
Irene Klotz, Discovery News


April 24, 2007 — Astronomers have found the first Earth-sized world circling its mother star at a distance suitable for life. It also has good prospects for liquid surface water — believed to be a key ingredient for life.

"This planet will most probably be a very important target of the future space missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life," said Xavier Delfosse, with Grenoble University in France.


"It is not possible with current telescopes and instruments yet," Xavier Bonfils, an astronomer with the Lisbonne Observatory in Portugal, wrote in an e-mail to Discovery News. "But in the next decade, we may have the tools to answer this question."

The planet, which is about 50 percent larger than Earth, circles a star in the constellation Libra known as Gliese 581, about 20.5 light-years away. Light travels in a vacuum at about 187,000 miles per second.

Astronomers previously have found a Neptune-sized world circling Gliese 581, as well as strong evidence for a third planet about eight times the mass of Earth.

The new planet, which is the smallest planet beyond our solar system found to date, circles its star 14 times closer than Earth orbits the sun. But because Gliese 581 is smaller and colder than our sun, the system's so-called habitability zone, where liquid water and thus life is possible, is closer to the mother star than in our solar system.

It was determined that planet would actually be to hot for life, and is out of the the habitable zone of that star. They actually just discovered a smaller planet orbiting that same star like five days ago. At the same time they also determined that Gliese 581 d (the 8 times earth sized planet referenced in the article) is actually in the Habitable zone while it was first thought to be found outside. I think they have actually adjusted the range of the Habitable zone for that star just recently.

Here's the article: ESO - ESO 15/09 - Lightest exoplanet yet discovered

Amazing stuff and with that new telescope technology there should only be more of this stuff to come in the next few years.