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[quote]Nasa has announced the discovery of a strange new solar system with six planets orbiting around a sun-like star.
The discovery is mystifying astronomers and illustrates just how much variety is possible in the universe.
Five of the planets were found to be in a closer orbit to their star than any planet in Earth's solar system.
"We really were just amazed at this gift that Nature...has given us. And with six transiting planets, five so close to their star, and getting the size and masses of these five fairly small worlds, there's only one word that I can think of that adequately describes the new finding we're announcing today - supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," Nasa scientist Jack Lissauer said at a news briefing in Washington DC, referring to the word made famous in the 1964 Disney movie, "Mary Poppins."
The team at Nasa and a range of universities has named the system Kepler-11, after the orbiting Kepler space telescope that spotted it.
The star resembles Earth's own sun. But five of the planets orbiting it are packed into a space equivalent to the distance between Mercury and Venus in our own solar system.
Astronomers have now found more than 500 exoplanets. Most are giant, because they are so far away that only the biggest are detectable. But some researchers are certain there are Earthlike planets out there.[/quote]
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That's really cool.
[QUOTE=Confused111;27831778]That's really cool.[/QUOTE]
this
I laughed at the "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" bit, but still, this is really interesting.
Thats a hot discovery
A little scary..
You're a hooker, you shouldn't be afraid of anything.
Even rape is downgraded to stealing for you.
Kepler is worth every penny.
They need to use more imagination when naming their findings.
"Hey, what should we name it?"
"How about the name of the telescope and a number after it!"
"GENIUS!"
[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;27832439]They need to use more imagination when naming their findings.
"Hey, what should we name it?"
"How about the name of the telescope and a number after it!"
"GENIUS!"[/QUOTE]
They did that until they started finding more of them than there are words in the English language.
That's really cool.
This is amazing, usually you would think that planets wouldn't be able to form that close to the star, because the star would just suck in all the materials before they form into a planet, but then you get awesome shit like this.
How far away is it?
That is so awesome!
[i]It is so tiny![/i]
[QUOTE=HookerVomit;27831826]A little scary..[/QUOTE]
I thought you were gone! :buddy:
[QUOTE=fskman;27840877]I thought you were gone! :buddy:[/QUOTE]I know, suddenly came out of nowhere
[QUOTE=HookerVomit;27831826]A little scary..[/QUOTE]
Just look at those planets orbiting... [I]menacingly[/I].
I wish Carl Sagan could see this. :frown:
[QUOTE=superdinoman;27847662]I wish Carl Sagan could see this. :frown:[/QUOTE]
I wish it wasn't on, *cough* yahoo news
[QUOTE=ThePuska;27833893]They did that until they started finding more of them than there are words in the English language.[/QUOTE]
In fact, even if you used all words in every language ever you'd still run out fairly quickly.
2000 light years away
maybe they can see Jesus right now :unsmith:
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