| Astronomers Discover Planet around Star 55 Cancri, 11/6/07 Director of UC Berkeley's Center for Integrative Planetary Science, tells about the discovery of a fifth planet around star 55 Cancri, the only star aside from the sun known to have five planets, and his hope that in the future, scientists can take pictures of these planets and look for signs of life. (2:01 min) Contact: Roxanne Makasdjian, UCB Media Relations www.berkeley.edu What's Behind the Planet X Conspiracy? Photoshop and Imagination Complete video at: fora.tv NASA astronomer David Morrison debunks conspiracy theories surrounding the "discovery" of Planet X, or Nibiru. Photoshop and a creative imagination, Morrison explains, lead many to believe in this fictional planet and the doomsday predictions for 2012. ----- This program was recorded in collaboration with the 2010 SkeptiCal Conference, in Berkeley, CA, on April 24, 2010. Dr. David Morrison is the Director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute and Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at the NASA Ames Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard and is internationally known for his research on small bodies in the solar system, including advocacy for developing plans to defend the Earth from impacts by comets and asteroids. A Fellow of CSI, he has written extensively on such fringe science topics as Velikovsky, cosmic catastrophes, UFOs, the creation science movement, and most recently the climate crisis caused by global warming. For the past two years he has been the primary scientist critic of the widespread fear that the world will end in 2012, and of the doomsday sleaze artists who use the Internet, blogs, and cable TV to frighten people for profit. Dr. Morrison's discussion largely centers around the hoax of 2012. - SkeptiCal Conference David Morrison is the senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., where he participates in a variety of research programs in astrobiology ... Imagining Extrasolar Planets From the Spitzer Science Center. While astronomers have identified over 500 planets around other stars, they're all too small and distant to fill even a single pixel in our most powerful telescopes. That's why science must rely on art to help us imagine these strange new worlds. From Spitzer Space Telescope. Even without pictures of these exoplanets, astronomers have learned many things that can be illustrated in artwork. For instance, measurements of the temperatures of many "Hot Jupiters," massive worlds orbiting very close to their stars, hint that their atmospheres may be as dark as soot, glowing only from their own heat. While "Hot Jupiters" would be relatively dark in visible light, compared to their stars, their brightness is proportionally much greater in the infrared. Illustrating this dramatic contrast change helps explain why the infrared eye of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope plays a key role in studying exoplanets. As our understanding evolves, so must the artwork. Astronomers found a blazing hot spot on the exoplanet Upsilon Andromedae b that at first, appeared to face towards its star. More data has revealed that the hottest area is actually strangely rotated almost 90 degrees away, near the day/night terminator. WASP 12b is as hot as the filament in a light bulb, and would be blazing bright to our eyes. Most interestingly, if it proves to have a strongly elliptical orbit, as first thought, calculations show it would be shedding some of its outer atmosphere ... The Return of Planet X, Part 3 "The Return of Planet-X" is an educational, informational source examining all aspects of this controversial subject including the record of ... all » X's Ancient Science of Prophecy, its Phantom Astronomy, Forbidden Archeology and the Signs Of Its Approach. We begin with an Introductory Overview, "Earthwatch -- The 21st Century and Beyond," and end with its Epilogue, "Prelude to Our 2012 Planet-X Countdown." It examines the history and prophecy of Earth's many cultures throughout the millenia and their voluminous references to the reality of X's periodic passages. The most current hypothesis we have to examine concerning X's next return through the solar system centers around the fact that X's extended orbit (approximately every 3600 years -- first passing through the solar system then back out again), suggests that its 'destructive cycle' occurs in two phases. The 'first phase' begins with X's 'initial pass-through' in 2009 separated by three years until its 'second phase' -- wherein it makes its 'second pass' through the solar system in 2012. This passage marks X's return leg back into deep space beginning again its 3600-year-long trek through the heavens. X's last return visit through the solar system most likely coincided with the Hebrew's exodus from Egypt estimated around 1447 BC -- roughly 3459 years ago. Did God somehow come to Moses' aid by staging a cosmic event that no one today understands? For some unknown and truly arcane reason the Mayan Celestial Calendar ... The Return of Planet X, Part 6 "The Return of Planet-X" is an educational, informational source examining all aspects of this controversial subject including the record of ... all » X's Ancient Science of Prophecy, its Phantom Astronomy, Forbidden Archeology and the Signs Of Its Approach. We begin with an Introductory Overview, "Earthwatch -- The 21st Century and Beyond," and end with its Epilogue, "Prelude to Our 2012 Planet-X Countdown." It examines the history and prophecy of Earth's many cultures throughout the millenia and their voluminous references to the reality of X's periodic passages. The most current hypothesis we have to examine concerning X's next return through the solar system centers around the fact that X's extended orbit (approximately every 3600 years -- first passing through the solar system then back out again), suggests that its 'destructive cycle' occurs in two phases. The 'first phase' begins with X's 'initial pass-through' in 2009 separated by three years until its 'second phase' -- wherein it makes its 'second pass' through the solar system in 2012. This passage marks X's return leg back into deep space beginning again its 3600-year-long trek through the heavens. X's last return visit through the solar system most likely coincided with the Hebrew's exodus from Egypt estimated around 1447 BC -- roughly 3459 years ago. Did God somehow come to Moses' aid by staging a cosmic event that no one today understands? For some unknown and truly arcane reason the Mayan Celestial Calendar ... The Return of Planet X, Part 2 "The Return of Planet-X" is an educational, informational source examining all aspects of this controversial subject including the record of ... all » X's Ancient Science of Prophecy, its Phantom Astronomy, Forbidden Archeology and the Signs Of Its Approach. We begin with an Introductory Overview, "Earthwatch -- The 21st Century and Beyond," and end with its Epilogue, "Prelude to Our 2012 Planet-X Countdown." It examines the history and prophecy of Earth's many cultures throughout the millenia and their voluminous references to the reality of X's periodic passages. The most current hypothesis we have to examine concerning X's next return through the solar system centers around the fact that X's extended orbit (approximately every 3600 years -- first passing through the solar system then back out again), suggests that its 'destructive cycle' occurs in two phases. The 'first phase' begins with X's 'initial pass-through' in 2009 separated by three years until its 'second phase' -- wherein it makes its 'second pass' through the solar system in 2012. This passage marks X's return leg back into deep space beginning again its 3600-year-long trek through the heavens. X's last return visit through the solar system most likely coincided with the Hebrew's exodus from Egypt estimated around 1447 BC -- roughly 3459 years ago. Did God somehow come to Moses' aid by staging a cosmic event that no one today understands? For some unknown and truly arcane reason the Mayan Celestial Calendar ... The Return of Planet X, Part 5 "The Return of Planet-X" is an educational, informational source examining all aspects of this controversial subject including the record of ... all » X's Ancient Science of Prophecy, its Phantom Astronomy, Forbidden Archeology and the Signs Of Its Approach. We begin with an Introductory Overview, "Earthwatch -- The 21st Century and Beyond," and end with its Epilogue, "Prelude to Our 2012 Planet-X Countdown." It examines the history and prophecy of Earth's many cultures throughout the millenia and their voluminous references to the reality of X's periodic passages. The most current hypothesis we have to examine concerning X's next return through the solar system centers around the fact that X's extended orbit (approximately every 3600 years -- first passing through the solar system then back out again), suggests that its 'destructive cycle' occurs in two phases. The 'first phase' begins with X's 'initial pass-through' in 2009 separated by three years until its 'second phase' -- wherein it makes its 'second pass' through the solar system in 2012. This passage marks X's return leg back into deep space beginning again its 3600-year-long trek through the heavens. X's last return visit through the solar system most likely coincided with the Hebrew's exodus from Egypt estimated around 1447 BC -- roughly 3459 years ago. Did God somehow come to Moses' aid by staging a cosmic event that no one today understands? For some unknown and truly arcane reason the Mayan Celestial Calendar ... Direct Image Of Extrasolar Planet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, or the "Southern Fish." Fomalhaut has been a candidate for planet hunting ever since an excess of dust was discovered around the star in the early 1980s by NASA's Infrared Astronomy Satellite, IRAS. In 2004, the coronagraph in the High Resolution Camera on Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys produced the first-ever resolved visible-light image of the region around Fomalhaut. It clearly showed a ring of protoplanetary debris approximately 21.5 billion miles across and having a sharp inner edge. This large debris disk is similar to the Kuiper Belt, which encircles the solar system and contains a range of icy bodies from dust grains to objects the size of dwarf planets, such as Pluto. Hubble astronomer Paul Kalas, of the University of California at Berkeley, and team members proposed in 2005 that the ring was being gravitationally modified by a planet lying between the star and the ring's inner edge. Circumstantial evidence came from Hubble's confirmation that the ring is offset from the center of the star. The sharp inner edge of the ring is also consistent with the presence of a planet that gravitationally "shepherds" ring particles. Independent researchers have ... The Search For Earth-Like Planets The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely aberration? If things dont work out on this planet Or if our itch to explore becomes unbearable at some point in the future Astronomers have recently found out what kind of galactic real estate might be available to us. Well have to develop advanced transport to land there, 20 light years away. The question right now: is it worth the trip? If things don't work out on this planet... Or if our itch to explore becomes unbearable at some point in the future... Astronomers have recently found out what kind of galactic real estate might be available to us. We'll have to develop advanced transport to land there, 20 light years away.... But that's for later. The question right now: is it worth the trip? The destination is a star that you can't see with your naked eye, in the southern constellation Libra, called Gliese 581. Identified over 40 years ago by the German astronomer Wilhelm Gliese, it's a red dwarf with 31% of the Sun's mass... and only 1.3% of its luminosity. Until recently, the so-called M Stars like Gliese 581 flew below the radar of planet hunters. They give off so little energy that a planet would have to orbit dangerously close just to get enough heat. Now, these unlikely realms are beginning to show some promise... as their dim light yields to precision technologies ... New Worlds, Yellowstone & Life Elsewhere For More Webcasts: www.nasm.si.edu Marcy's research has focused on the detection of planets around stars other than Earth's sun. His team has discovered 145 extrasolar planets (as of November 2007), allowing study of the planets' masses and orbits. This lecture is part of the second annual John Bahcall Lecture Series, organized and made possible by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and the Hubble Space Telescope Program at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Planet X - Anunnaki of Nibiru Working from the same archaeological discoveries, artifacts, and recovered records as archaeologists and linguists have for two hundred years, Sitchin propounds proves, in the opinion of this author -- that the Anunnaki (Sumerian: those who came down from the heavens; Old testament Hebrew, Anakeim, Nefilim, Elohim; Egyptian: Neter), an advanced civilization from the tenth planet in our solar system, splashed down in the Persian gulf area Some 250000 years ago, the recovered documents tell us, their lower echelon miners rebelled against the conditions in the mines and the Anunnaki directorate decided to create a creature to take their place. Enki, their chief scientist and Ninhursag their chief medical officer, after getting no satisfactory results splicing animal and Homo Erectus genes, merged their Anunnaki genes with that of Homo Erectus and produced us, Homo Sapiens, a genetically bicameral species, for their purposes as slaves. Because we were a hybrid, we could not procreate. The demand for us as workers became greater and we were genetically manipulated to reproduce. Eventually, we became so numerous that some of us were expelled from the Anunnaki city centers, gradually spreading over the planet. Having become a stable genetic stock and developing more precociously than, perhaps, the Anunnaki had anticipated, the Anunnaki began to be attracted to humans as sexual partners and children were born of these unions. This was unacceptable to the majority of the Anunnaki ... Galileo and Jupiter's Moons- In 1610, when Galileo first pointed his newly built telescope toward the sky, no one had ever had the capability to see distant objects in any detail, and he had no idea what to expect. Focusing on the Moon first, he discovered that its surface was not smooth as people had previously thought, but covered with craters and mountains not unlike those on Earth. Next, Galileo turned his attention to another bright object in the night sky — the planet Jupiter. Today, we know quite a bit about Jupiter. With a diameter about 11 times greater than Earth's, Jupiter is the largest planet around our Sun. It is so enormous that its mass is more than twice the combined mass of all the other planets in our solar system. Composed mostly of gaseous hydrogen and helium, Jupiter is a gas giant. It has a trademark banded look that results from its turbulent atmosphere, and its Great Red Spot is a giant storm that has been raging for centuries. Jupiter also has a faint ring system and, as of May 2005, 63 known moons surround it. In a very short time, Galileo discovered Jupiter's four largest moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, now called the Galilean moons. Each moon has unique characteristics that make it stand out in the solar system. For example, Io is the most volcanically active object in the solar system. Europa may have an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface and may be the best candidate for another habitable world. Callisto is one of the most heavily cratered bodies ... Search for Another Earth Hubble directly observes planet orbiting Fomalhaut Search for Another Earth The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an extrasolar planet, for the first time using direct visible-light imaging. The strange world is far-flung from its parent star, is surrounded by a colossal belt of gas and dust, and may even have rings more impressive than Saturn's. HUBBLE DIRECTLY OBSERVES A PLANET ORBITING ANOTHER STAR WASHINGTON — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, or the "Southern Fish." Fomalhaut has been a candidate for planet hunting ever since an excess of dust was discovered around the star in the early 1980s by NASA's Infrared Astronomy Satellite, IRAS. In 2004, the coronagraph in the High Resolution Camera on Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys produced the first-ever resolved visible-light image of the region around Fomalhaut. It clearly showed a ring of protoplanetary debris approximately 21.5 billion miles across and having a sharp inner edge. This large debris disk is similar to the Kuiper Belt, which encircles the solar system and contains a range of icy bodies from dust grains to objects the size of dwarf planets, such as Pluto. Hubble astronomer Paul Kalas, of the University of California at Berkeley, and team members proposed in 2005 that the ... Curious ExoPlanet Hot Spot From the Spitzer Science Center: The gas-giant planet, named upsilon Andromedae b, orbits tightly around its star, with one face perpetually boiling under the star's heat. It belongs to a class of planets termed hot Jupiters, so called for their scorching temperatures and large, gaseous constitutions. One might think the hottest part of these planets would be directly under the sun-facing side, but previous observations have shown that their hot spots may be shifted slightly away from this point. Astronomers thought that fierce winds might be pushing hot, gaseous material around. But the new finding may throw this theory into question. Using Spitzer, an infrared observatory, astronomers found that upsilon Andromedae b's hot spot is offset by a whopping 80 degrees. Basically, the hot spot is over to the side of the planet instead of directly under the glare of the sun. "We really didn't expect to find a hot spot with such a large offset," said Ian Crossfield, lead author of a new paper about the discovery appearing in an upcoming issue of Astrophysical Journal. "It's clear that we understand even less about the atmospheric energetics of hot Jupiters than we thought we did." The results are part of a growing field of exoplanet atmospheric science, pioneered by Spitzer in 2005, when it became the first telescope to directly detect photons from an exoplanet, or a planet orbiting a star other than our sun. Since then, Spitzer, along with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has ... Planet Smash-Up Animation NASA JPL Spitzer Space Telescope HD Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech bit.ly This artist's concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that a high-speed collision of this sort occurred a few thousand years ago around a young star, called HD 172555, still in the early stages of planet formation. The star is about 100 light-years from Earth. Spitzer detected the signatures of vaporized and melted rock, in addition to rubble, all flung out from the giant impact. Further evidence from the infrared telescope shows that these two bodies must have been traveling at a velocity relative to each other of at least 10 kilometers per second (about 22400 miles per hour). As the bodies slammed into each other, a huge flash of light would have been emitted. Rocky surfaces were vaporized and melted, and hot matter was sprayed everywhere. Spitzer detected the vaporized rock in the form of silicon monoxide gas, and the melted rock as a glassy substance called obsidian. On Earth, obsidian can be found around volcanoes, and in black rocks called tektites often found around meteor craters. Shock waves from the collision would have traveled through the planet, throwing rocky rubble into space. Spitzer also detected the signatures of this rubble. In the end, the larger planet is left skinned, stripped of its outer layers. The core of the smaller body and most of its surface were absorbed by the larger one. This merging ... Planetary Studies Science & Reason on Facebook: tinyurl.com NASA Goddard: Webb Telescope Planetary Studies. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study planetary bodies with our solar system and planets orbiting other stars to help scientists better understand how planets form and how they evolve. --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com --- From our small world we have gazed upon the cosmic ocean for thousands of years. Ancient astronomers observed points of light that appeared to move among the stars. They called these objects planets, meaning wanderers, and named them after Roman deities - Jupiter, king of the gods; Mars, the god of war; Mercury, messenger of the gods; Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, and Saturn, father of Jupiter and god of agriculture. The stargazers also observed comets with sparkling tails, and meteors - or shooting stars apparently falling from the sky. Since the invention of the telescope, three more planets have been discovered in our solar system: Uranus (1781), Neptune (1846), and Pluto (1930). Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. In addition, our solar system is populated by thousands of small bodies such as asteroids and comets. Most of the asteroids orbit in a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, while the home of comets lies far beyond the orbit of Pluto, in the Oort Cloud. The four planets closest to the Sun - Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars - are ... 7. Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160) Class begins with a problem on transits and learning what information astronomers obtain through observing them. For example, radii of stars can be estimated. Furthermore, applying the Doppler shift method, one can find the mass of a star. Finally, a star's density can be calculated. A second method for identifying planets around stars is introduced: the astrometry method. The method allows for an extremely accurate assessment of a star's precise position in the sky. Special features of the astrometry method are discussed and a number of problems are solved. A short summary is given on the three methods astronomers use to identify exoplanets. Class ends with an overview of upcoming space missions and the hope of detecting the presence of biological activity on other planet. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2007. Sounding the Stars with Genetic Algorithms Google Tech Talks January 13, 2009 ABSTRACT In February 2009 NASA will launch the Kepler satellite, a mission designed to discover habitable Earth-like planets around distant Sun-like stars. The method that Kepler will use to detect distant worlds will only reveal the size of the planet relative to the size of the host star, so part of the mission is devoted to characterizing distant Suns using a technique known as "asteroseismology". I have developed an automated approach to matching computer models of stars to such observations, based primarily on a parallel genetic algorithm. I will give a broad overview of how we can probe the insides of stars using seismology, and I will provide a general background on the operation of our model-fitting application. I will conclude with our first results on a nearby star: the Sun. Speaker: Travis Metcalfe Travis Metcalfe is an astronomer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He started his career in the backyard of his childhood home in rural Oregon, and continued it in such places as Tucson, Austin, and Boston before landing in Boulder four years ago. NASA Announces Discovery Of New Planets Transcript by www.newsy.com BY STEVEN SPARKMAN You're watching multisource science news analysis from Newsy NASA has announced several discoveries in the search for planets outside our solar system, to the delight of astronomers worldwide. The findings all center around the Kepler telescope, which finds planets by watching them pass in front of their home stars. The New York Times reports the search has been fruitful. (Video NASA) "In a long-awaited announcement, scientists operating NASA's Kepler planet-hunting satellite reported Wednesday that they had identified 1202 possible planets orbiting other stars, potentially tripling the number of known planets in the universe." The researchers discovered that small planets like Earth are more common than large planets like Jupiter. They identified more than 50 such small planets that could have liquid water, many of them in multi-planet systems. Stars with multiple planets are especially sought after, since watching how the planets interact tells us more about them. The data uncovered 200 such systems. A blogger for Discover Magazine directs us to one unusual system, called Kepler-11. (Video: NASA) "...astronomers have found a complete solar system of six planets orbiting a sun-like star... and it's really weird: five of the six planets huddle closer to their star than Mercury does to the Sun!" Earlier this year the Kepler team discovered the first planet ever confirmed to be made of rock instead of gas. With discovery after ... Planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb Discovery Using a network of telescopes scattered across the globe, including the Danish 1.54m telescope at ESO La Silla (Chile), astronomers discovered a new extrasolar planet in 2005 significantly more Earth-like than any other planet found by that time. The planet, which is only about 5 times as massive as the Earth, circles its parent star in about 10 years. It is the least massive exoplanet around an ordinary star detected so far and also the coolest. The planet most certainly has a rocky/icy surface. Its discovery marks a groundbreaking result in the search for planets that support life. The new planet, designated by the unglamorous identifier of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, orbits a red star five times less massive than the Sun and located at a distance of about 20000 light years, not far from the center of our Milky Way galaxy. credit: European Southern Observatory source: www.eso.org UFOFilesRadio-Planet-XJ.Q.Rand-Pt. 1 Planet X - Dr. Jaysen Q. Rand knows the destruction of Earth Quakes and Hurricanes, he has been in major ones and his research on Planet X turns up some terrifying prospects for humanity. Has Planet X been here before, could it be possible every 3500 years or so Planet X comes by to wreak havoc on civilized mankind? In this program Dr. Rand tells Jerry why he thinks many Biblical miracles were the result of Planet X. He tells of civilizations and evidence of catastrophic events pushing humankind back into the stone age, over and over again. Will it happen again? He says by 2009 it could. Dr. Rand received his Honorary Ph.D. in the field of Energyinformative Sciences, from the Academy of Energyinformative Sciences, conducted with Moscow University, Russia. His contributions in the study and pursuit of Extraterrestrial Communications, research into UFO phenomena, cosmology and his representing the United States at The First World UFO Congress (Tucson, AZ - 1991) - earned him distinctive recognition and his Doctorate from their Russian Academy of Sciences on December 18, 1992 in Moscow. Jaysen Rand also attended the University of Illinois (Chicago Campus), Palmer School of Business, the National College of Chiropractic and earned three US Army (MOS) school diplomas from (1963 - 1966). He's also a gold/platinum, multi-award winning music producer/recording artist/songwriter/publisher and recording studio manager being a music A&R executive with real hands-on corporate ... Planet X Nibiru and the Gods of Eden Ancient Sumerian texts indicate that the Earth ("Tiamat") was struck by a large planet, which moved it into its present orbit, and created the Moon and the Asteroid Belt. In his books, The Twelfth Planet and The Cosmic Code, Zecharia Sitchin outlines this "celestial battle" as described in the Babylonian text called Enuma elish. The planet "Marduk" (the Sumerian " Nibiru "), as it came into the solar system on its clockwise elliptical course, struck Tiamat, which was moving in its ordained counterclockwise orbit. One of Marduk's satellites struck Tiamat first, followed by two more of Marduk's moons. Then Marduk itself, an enormous planetary body, struck Tiamat, smashing one half of the planet into pieces, which became the Earth's Moon and the "Great Band" (Asteroid Belt). The other half of the planet, which was struck by a smaller moon of Marduk, was moved into a new orbit, along with a chunk of material which became its moon. The new planet was then called "KI," meaning "cleaved one." The Earth's original moons were dispersed, many changing the direction of their orbits. Sitchin has also written in Divine Encounters, the planet where God the creator resides is referred to in the Bible as Olamin, the plural of Olam. The meaning of "olam" in the ancient world was a measure of a really long time, specifically related to the span of time between the periodic disappearance and reappearance of the planet Marduk/Nibiru on its vast 3600 year elliptical orbit. The domain of ... NASA | Dust Simulations Paint Alien's View of the Solar System Dust ground off icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto and millions of other objects, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun. Neptune's gravitational imprint on the dust is always detectable in new simulations of how this dust moves through the solar system. By ramping up the collision rate, the simulations show how the distant view of the solar system might have changed over its history. This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Like our videos? Subscribe to NASA's Goddard Shorts HD podcast: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Or find NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on facebook: www.facebook.com Or find us on Twitter: twitter.com NASA Finds Earth-size Planet Candidates in the Habitable Zone NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the potential planets are near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of smaller, cooler stars than our sun. Kepler mission discovers more than 1000 new planet candidates Is our Milky Way galaxy home to other planets the size of Earth? Are Earth-sized planets common or rare? NASA scientists seeking answers to those questions recently revealed their discovery. "We went from zero to 68 Earth-sized planet candidates and zero to 54 candidates in the habitable zone - a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Some candidates could even have moons with liquid water," said William Borucki of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and the Kepler Mission's science principal investigator. "Five of the planetary candidates are both near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their parent stars." Planet candidates require follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets. "We have found over twelve hundred candidate planets - that's more than all the people have found so far in history," said Borucki. "Now, these are candidates, but most of them, I'm convinced, will be confirmed as planets in the coming months and years." The findings increase the number of planet candidates identified by Kepler to-date to 1235. Of these, 68 are approximately ... photo: photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech Can WISE find the hypothetical 'Tyche' planet at edge of our solar ...
Astronomers Find Unusual New Denizen Of The Solar System (Aug. ... NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan for Asteroids and Comets a Family Portrait (Feb. ... has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. ... 21, 2008) — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught Jupiter's moon Ganymede ...
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Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered magnificent sections of the Veil ... For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet ... objects in space, ranging from faraway galaxies to asteroids and comets ... of a large planet body in the Oort cloud over the six-month period. ...
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Hubble astronomer Paul Kalas, of the University of California at .... Planet Smash-Up Animation NASA JPL Spitzer Space Telescope HD ... The stargazers also observed comets with sparkling tails, and meteors - or ... In addition, our solar system is populated by thousands of small bodies such as asteroids and comets. ...
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Emily Lakdawalla reports on the spectacular flyby of comet Tempel 1 just completed by ... 0:17 Extrasolar Planet HD 209458b [1080p] by djxatlanta 6110 views. ... The Hubble Space Telescope detects carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an ... pioneer in the hunt for exoplanets, the celestial bodies orbiting far. ...
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In the original studies, Edmond Halley [of Halley's comet fame] figured out a way of ... black-sand beaches to "follow in Cook's footsteps" during the celestial event . ... It's also helpful for the [Kepler] people doing those exoplanet transit ... From dwarf planets to hot Jupiters, join NatGeo News space editor ...
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Roots of the Solar System: Astronomers Observe Planets in the Making ... Space Exploration · Asteroids, Comets and Meteors · Astronomy ... February 18, 2011 — A corrective strategy used by astronomers to sharpen images of celestial bodies can ... The Moon's surface is covered with oxygen-rich soils, Hubble Space ...
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Beyond the possibility of a new planet, the paper on this work becomes absorbing in ... objects toward the center of the galaxy) in pulling comets out of the Oort Cloud. ..... Automated Planet Finder; Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope ... Buran Space Shuttle · Captain Interstellar (Paul Titze) · Celestial Matters ...
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The evidence to support the possibility of a new celestial body within our solar ... 12:24 Venus the Comet - Comet Elenin - A Bad Hair Day... by ... New Hubble observations of the massive globular cluster NGC 2808 provide evid. ... moon is not a necessity of being a planet, there are no other celestial bodies that ...
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The creation of bowl-shaped impact craters by asteroids or comets striking .... and Comets Asteroids y Rocky bodies that orbit the Sun much like planets. y .... young solar system were flung into space by gravitational encounters. moon and ... of planets have been discovered Basic methods of detecting exoplanets: o ...
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Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most ... In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, .... observations of exoplanets and their atmospheres, and determining the ... ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre, could describe some of their work ...
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gillpolack: Women's History Month: Lara Eakins
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The 1970s were the start of a golden era in the exploration of the solar system and from an early age, up-close pictures of the solar system were part of my life. One of my earliest memories was looking through National Geographic ... Early in high school I decided that I wanted to be an astronaut (I even went to Space Camp!), but when the time finally came to actually start my career path, I ended up deciding on astronomy. Although if someone offered me a trip on one of ...
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