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[QUOTE][B]Kepler-78b is slightly larger than Earth and nearly double its mass. More than 1,000 exoplanets have been confirmed so far.[/B]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have found a planet way out in the cosmos that's close in size and content to Earth — an astronomical first.
But hold off on the travel plans. This rocky world is so close to its sun that it's at least 2,000 degrees hotter than here, almost certainly too hot for life.
Astrophysicists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that the exoplanet Kepler-78b appears to be made of rock and iron just like Earth. They measured the planet's mass to determine its density and content. It's actually a little bigger than Earth and nearly double its mass, or weight.
Kepler-78b is located in the Cygnus constellation hundreds of light-years away. Incredibly, it orbits its sun every 8½ hours, a mystery to astronomers who doubt it could have formed or moved that close to a star. They agree the planet will be sucked up by the sun in a few billion years, so its time remaining, astronomically speaking, is short.
More than 1,000 exoplanets — worlds outside our solar system — have been confirmed so far.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, used to discover Kepler-78b, has identified 3,500 more potential candidates. The telescope lost its precise pointing ability earlier this year, and NASA has given up trying to fix it.
Scientific teams in the United States and Switzerland used ground observatories to measure Kepler-78b.[/QUOTE]
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That's so fucking cool.
I mean hot.
They should have called it Mustafar
i lava good science discovery like this
Must be this planet
[video=youtube;pSwy412nttI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwy412nttI[/video]
I want to build a house there, sounds like a swell place.
Immediately thought of this.
[video=youtube;RJV4jvGicWE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJV4jvGicWE[/video]
[QUOTE=TheKritter71;42705943]Must be this planet
[video=youtube;pSwy412nttI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwy412nttI[/video][/QUOTE]
But that's not in our galaxy. Duh.
[editline]30th October 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zeekybomb343;42705955]Immediately thought of this.
[video=youtube;RJV4jvGicWE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJV4jvGicWE[/video][/QUOTE]
Possible.
Kepler 78-b national anthem:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma-WtwN9KrY[/media]
This is really amazing. Not just the surface temperature, but how close it is to the star. It has an 8-and-a-half hour year. Not day. [I]Year[/I].
Think about that.
This planet, this mass of lava and magma, twice the mass of Earth, makes a complete orbit around its star in less time than the average person goes to work and comes back home. That is some impressive shit.
The official, scientific, professional classification of this is "some really impressive shit".
It's almost as if lava planets are a generic trope of fictional universes.
the sounds like a really fucking dense planet
Fuck yes astronomy. This is why I eventually want to work in the space industry, as every single step bringing us closer to being an interstellar society is exciting.
it's Char
the idea of hell becomes less scary when theres countless places like it that actually exist throughout the universe
Anyone up for a planet-wide game of "The Floor is Lava" ?
the more and more planets they discover to be hellscapes or water worlds, the more and more i appreciate our goldylocks planet.
also the more i think the solar systems out there look more and more like the solar systems in planetary annihilation
[QUOTE=Obnobs;42706063]It's almost as if lava planets are a generic trope of fictional universes.[/QUOTE]
Heh, yeah...
wait
[QUOTE=Last or First;42705999]Kepler 78-b national anthem:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma-WtwN9KrY[/media]
This is really amazing. Not just the surface temperature, but how close it is to the star. It has an 8-and-a-half hour year. Not day. [I]Year[/I].
Think about that.
This planet, this mass of lava and magma, twice the mass of Earth, makes a complete orbit around its star in less time than the average person goes to work and comes back home. That is some impressive shit.
The official, scientific, professional classification of this is "some really impressive shit".[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRXGxYAXXh4[/media]
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;42706375]"piece of shit won't turn [b]precisely[/b]"
:v:[/QUOTE]
It's funny how so many exoplanets match the descriptions of sci-fi and games, but then I think there's probably so many planets there's at least one of every type you could think of.
[QUOTE=Saxon;42706074]the sounds like a really fucking dense planet[/QUOTE]
Eh, 1.8 times the mass of the Earth and a little bit bigger, so not that dense.
[QUOTE=The article]It's actually a little bigger than Earth and [b]nearly double its mass, or weight[/b].
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Ah shit, they did NOT just go there.
[QUOTE=Beelzebub;42706390]the idea of hell becomes less scary when theres countless places like it that actually exist throughout the universe[/QUOTE]
Or more scary for the fact it DOES exist.... You die, your life energy fuels it.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/h5exaEi.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;42709010][img]http://i.imgur.com/h5exaEi.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
did the person who made this really believe there is such a thing as a sun made of ice
There are billions of stars in our galaxy. And each has the possibility to have multiple planets. So there is a stark possibility for any exceptional planet to exist for thousands of times in our galaxy alone.
[QUOTE=Recurracy;42709063]did the person who made this really believe there is such a thing as a sun made of ice[/QUOTE]
Or a sun made of lava
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;42709010][img]http://i.imgur.com/h5exaEi.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
duh it would make a lava-ice type sun. it gets both lava attacks AND ice attacks.
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;42706375]"piece of shit won't turn on"
:v:[/QUOTE]
"Tried turning it off and then on Jerold?"
"Ofcourse Lenny, do you think I'm an idiot?"
[QUOTE=J!NX;42705953]I want to build a house there, sounds like a swell place.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090603062129/swg/images/4/41/Mustafarian_bunker_design.jpg[/img]
One of the coolest houses in-game. That's the entrance, the rest was underground
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