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Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

In the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus initiated the novel idea in astronomy that the planets and the sun and the stars do not revolve around the Earth but that the planets, including our own, revolve around the sun.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Rovelli points out that humans have always observed that the stars, the moon, the planets, etc, continually revolve around us, so it should follow that «below us» is nothing; in other words, the sky is not just over our head, it's also under our feet.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

The lead author of the new study, Guillem Anglada [1], from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain, explains the significance of this find: «The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it's the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just a single planet, around the star closest to our Sun.»

The answers will not only help explain how Earth became an ideal place for incubating life; they will also tell a lot about the odds of finding similar habitable planets around other stars.

But that doesn't stop him fantasising about easier ways: «Wish I had a friend on a planet around a runaway star in the halo, sending me back a photo.»

«Ours isn't the only group looking for planets around young stars, and my hope is that astronomers can find enough of them to shed light on some of the nagging questions about planet formation,» Johns - Krull said.

«There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that we will find hints of extraterrestrial life within the next few decades, just maybe not on an Earth - like planet around a Sun - like star.»

Looking ahead, NASA has no plans for a next - generation mission to study Earth - like planets around other stars, the most exciting astronomical discovery of the past decade if not the past half - century.

ne = the number of habitable planets around each star In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's «habitable zone» — a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface.

If confirmed by other researchers, the planet would not just be an astronomical novelty; Its detection, reported on the e-print server at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (see astro - ph / 9908038), would also be a triumph for a new and potentially powerful technique for finding planets around other stars.

Not necessarily, says Harvard astrophysicist Matt Holman, who has used a computer to simulate how a planet around a binary star would behave over millions of orbits.

Early on, I always had to say to the class, «It's probably true that planets around other stars are out there, but we really don't know.»

[6] This detection rate of 3 planets in a sample of 88 stars in Messier 67 is close to the average frequency of planets around stars that are not members of clusters.

«These new results show that planets in open star clusters are about as common as they are around isolated stars — but they are not easy to detect,» adds Luca Pasquini (ESO, Garching, Germany), co-author of the new paper [6].

Maybe F [hot, yellow - white] stars — there are probably some planets around them, too, but I'm not sure if you want to live there.

Unfortunately, Kepler can not provide that kind of detail on the more than 2,300 likely planets it has discovered around other stars.

But it wasn't until the early 1990s that we actually saw good evidence of planets around other stars.

The first planets outside the solar system were discovered 25 years ago — not around a normal star like our Sun, but instead orbiting a tiny, super-dense «neutron star».

One controversial theory posits that giant planets might not need rocky cores if they form directly from unstable whorls of gas in the nebula around a young star.

«If [the moon is] real, maybe it shouldn't be terribly surprising that we saw it, since it's large enough to be detected as a planet in its own right, at least around some stars.

The same approach was used by the team to study the SDSS 1557 system as any planets within it can not yet be detected directly but the debris is spread in a large belt around the double stars, which is a much larger target for analysis.

«TPF will look at each of the nearest few hundred stars for a few hours, and we'll know for sure whether or not there's an Earth - like planet around it,» says jpl scientist and senior project overseer Charles Beichman.

The one thing they turn out to have in common — and this is still not completely appreciated — is that in solar systems with multiple planets, these multiple planets fill all the gravitationally stable niches around the star.

In fact, last week, astronomers found a rocky planet not much bigger than Earth whose orbit around its relatively young star is only 3 % of the distance from Earth to the sun (ScienceNOW, 21 April).

«The fact that you can form planets around a star that has so little of this material is a very surprising and unusual thing,» says Christopher Johns - Krull, an astronomer at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the new work.

«This solidifies our view that rocky planets are everywhere, ubiquitous, around all kinds of stars,» says astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the project.

Ehrenreich and his team think that such a huge cloud of gas can exist around this planet because the cloud is not rapidly heated and swept away by the radiation pressure from the relatively cool red dwarf star.

Although it probably won't happen here, the same process might make Earth - like planets around other stars uninhabitable.

Planets are found around nearly every star, but astronomers still do not fully understand how — and under what conditions — they form.

For instance, the IAU states that it is not allowed to propose the same name for a host star and a planet around it, yet one entry for the planetary system of Tau Boötis suggests calling both the star and its planet «Alfraganus.»

He pointed out that there are many close - orbiting planets around middle - aged stars that are in stable orbits, but his team doesn't know how quickly this young planet is going to lose its mass and «whether it will lose too much to survive.»

You said, it was not assumed that planets are being formed around such a young star as HL Tau.

Planet «b» around star Upsilon Andromedae A has a mysterious hot spot that is not located near the point closest to the host star, as was expected (more).

Found via radial velocity variations, the planet's true mass could not be known with knowing whether its orbit around Star B is being viewed edge - on, face - on, or somewhere in between.

«While the current state of the technique can not detect Earths around stars like the Sun, with Keck Observatory it should soon be possible to study the atmospheres of the so - called «super-Earth» planets being discovered around nearby low mass stars, many of which do not transit,» Blake said.

Primarily, the K2 Mission is searching for different planets around different stars, determining whether or not these exoplanets could be habitable.

However, it wasn't expected that so many large planets are growing around such a young star at the age of 1 million years in a «standard model» that was long accepted by astronomers.

Scientists believe that by looking at Mercury, they will learn not only about planets in our solar system, but also about the increasing number of rocky planets being found around other stars.

On March 25, 2015, a team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope revealed observations which indicate via the transit method that Alpha Centauri B may have a second planet «c» in a hot inner orbit, just outside planet candidate «b.» After observing Alpha Centauri B in 2013 and 2014 for a total of 40 hours, the team failed to detect any transits involving planet b (previously detected using the radial velocity variations method and recently determined not to be observed edge - on in a transit orbit around Star B).

Although techniques exist to find planets around the closest stars, they have not been a focus of a systematic search.

«If there is water in Kuiper belt - like objects around other stars, as there now appears to be, then when rocky planets form they need not contain life's ingredients,» said Siyi Xu, the study's lead author, a postdoctoral scholar at the European Southern Observatory in Germany who earned her doctorate at UCLA.

Based on 86 radial velocity observations obtained with the HARPS - N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and 32 archival Keck / HIRES observations, we present a prec... ▽ More Kepler - 93b is a 1.478 + / - 0.019 Earth radius planet with a 4.7 day period around a bright (V = 10.2), astroseismically - characterized host star with a mass of 0.911 + / -0.033 solar masses and a radius of 0.919 + / -0.011 solar radii.

But the resemblances stop there: A star - circling «year» on either planet wouldn't be much longer than one of our days, and the surface temperatures probably hover around 2,000 ° C.

We can rule out gas giants at Barnard's Star thanks to continuing Doppler monitoring, but we can't yet rule out small rocky planets of the kind we are now turning up around other M - dwarfs in data from the Kepler mission.

According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a team of scientists has, for the first time ever, not only directly observed a planet being formed, but also captured a photograph of the process taking place around a star 450 light - years from Earth.

This discovery was a surprise to the astronomical community, which had expected planets around «normal» stars and not around ultra-dense stellar remnants.

Assuming that the spectroscopic companion B does not preclude a stable inner planetary orbit, the distance from Star A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.457 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System.