Astronomers Could Soon Find Moons Outside the Solar System--Even Habitable Ones
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[QUOTE=Benie;21902024]I love how you think I'm a furry. But what does that have to do with this thread?[/QUOTE]
Scalies, furries, p. much the same thing.
Technicalities.
Okay... And how do we get there?
This better bring me some hot alien ass.
This is awesome!
Any decade now and we'll have found a mass relay as well.
We know the zone for habitable planets, no reason the moons of gas giants can't have liquid water. Hell, the moons of Saturn and Jupiter are made up in large percentage of water ice.
I will probably be dead before out of earth colonies, but hey, good luck future!
[QUOTE=DamagePoint;21890703]They've been saying this for years, I'll believe it when I see it.[/QUOTE]
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Is it possible to make a telescope that could take pictures of planets outside from our Solar system?I would love to see that happen.If we can't reach we could at least observe.
Read thread title, think "Is this about Pandora?".
Enter thread, my suspicions are confirmed.
I just had a thought.
Ewoks vs. Na'vi
My money is on the Ewoks.
[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;21919815]Is it possible to make a telescope that could take pictures of planets outside from our Solar system?I would love to see that happen.If we can't reach we could at least observe.[/QUOTE]
Not likely. However, we can detect the moons in the same way we detect planets.
When a planet passes in front of the star, we measure the brief period of lack of light to determine wether or not that's a planet. This does not apply to moons, but hold on a second.
We can also determine how much the star is bent out of shape our out of position. This is caused by the planet's gravity pulling the star (Or, if it's too massive, a portion of the star) towards it. Gas giants do the same: Some parts of them are bent out of shape if the moon is very massive, but most of the time it's a simple matter of the planet being pulled away from it's orbital course just to return to it once the moon has moved to the opposite point in the orbit.
[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;21919815]Is it possible to make a telescope that could take pictures of planets outside from our Solar system?I would love to see that happen.If we can't reach we could at least observe.[/QUOTE]
It's circled:
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[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;21926322]It's circled:
[IMG]http://likearadiotelescope.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/exoplanet.jpg?w=350&h=350[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Even tho I got my question my answered I meant clear pictures of a planet.
[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;21927031]Even tho I got my question my answered I meant clear pictures of a planet.[/QUOTE]
Impossible.
[QUOTE=the_KMM;21923984]I just had a thought.
Ewoks vs. Na'vi
My money is on the Ewoks.[/QUOTE]
Two-foot tall sentient kowalas versus ten-foot tall blue furry cat people.
Well, the Na'vi [I]are [/I]a warrior culture, but the Ewoks have that wicked Bamboo Tech. It's kind of a draw. :colbert:
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21927266]Impossible.[/QUOTE]
Not the kind of thing I'd expect you to say.
We could eventually get pictures of a planetary system if we ever get the technology to accelerate probes to significant fractions of lightspeed. I hope I live to see that happen.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;21928166]Not the kind of thing I'd expect you to say.
We could eventually get pictures of a planetary system if we ever get the technology to accelerate probes to significant fractions of lightspeed. I hope I live to see that happen.[/QUOTE]
Sure, if we can get the telescopes on probes then of course.
But I think he meant a telescope here at home.
It would have to be VERY big and advanced. Also cold. Should be placed on Pluto or some other planet that doesn't get a lot of light/radiation and has already irradiated all its heat into space.
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