The First Five Worlds of Kepler
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On January 4th, 2010, the Kepler Science Team announced the first five worlds discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope. These planets are larger, Jupiter-sized ones, instead of the smaller Earth-sized planets it was designed to detect, but these discoveries pave the way by assuring that the systems all work and that the science goals will be met. This announcement was made at the Meeting of the American Astronomical Society being held this week in Washington DC. Here is a link to the press release: http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=16 This was the fastest I've ever made a video. I was heading off to bed at about 11:30 pm, cozy in bed with my laptop when I first read the release - I was uploading this video by 3:00 am. I felt this news was important because many Space Fans have been asking questions about what Kepler is and how it worked. Keep Looking Up!
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I'm no expert but by this method we can only detect planets whose plane of rotation around it's star is more or less same as Earth's plane of roration around the Sun. Am I correct?
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Sorry, it was kind of confusing because Link Triforce didn't use commas in his number.
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You left out 3 zeros. The big bang happened about 13,800,000,000 (13.8 billion) years ago +/- 37,000,000 (37 million) years according to the most recent estimates.
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I'm not disagreeing with you, just adding to your comment. Even if its 20 lightyears away, its still in the moment. We are simply seeing it 20 years ago. It's still here and now, moving in ways different than what we can see in at this moment. If we were half way on a journey to Kepler, we would see what it was doing 10 years ago. If we were right next to Kepler(less than a lightyear away, we would know what its doing right about now.
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A) The big bang happened about 13,400,000 years ago. There were no early forms of humans 20,000,000 years ago. B) 20 light years is the distance light can travel in 20 years. If a star were to "Dissapear" this moment, it would remain in the sky for twenty years, because the last particle of light would not reach earth for 20 years. 20 light years does not equal 20,000,000 years.
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i wouldn't hold my breath though, everything is very far away from us. but hey there's plenty of life here on earth :)
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what a dumbass
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What did he say?!!?!?
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Fuck you and and your mother in dirty ass you stupid bitch
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I love you. Most people can never breach the exterior and peer inside to see the real troll interior.
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Swing and a miss, i'm not Mexican. But it's nice to know you immediately resort to personal insults when you know you've been proved wrong :)
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You are a mutherfucking idiot
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The letters after a planet's name correspond with when it was found. They normally name planets by taking the star's name, and adding a lowercase letter to it. The first planet found gets a b, the next gets a c, after that, a d, and so on and so on. As to why it doesn't start with a, I am at a loss.
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The best footage you can get is watching a star wobble around a system's barycenter, but that would get really boring after having to do the math that would accompany the few photos that show barely millimeters of movement. You would also probably have to wait for another transit of the planet if you failed to assume it was a planet's influence you were seeing, and this can take a long time. Footage won't come until we actually find a means of going to stars light years away.
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So it would see that we still have a space shuttle program....
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what does the B stand for? Boobs?
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The important part there "I am not a scientist" hence why your comment made no freakin' sense.
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actual footage would just be a nearly invisible black blip moving very slowly across a star.
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So, Keplar 22b is about 600 light years away from Earth. So if there is any life on Keplar, and saying that they are observing the Earth, they would see AD 1413...trippy.
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Great, another conspiracy asshole.
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