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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Methane Discovered on Distant Exoplanet
NASA ^
| 20 Sep, 2023
| Illustration Credit: Ahmad Jabakenji (ASU Lebanon, North Star Space Art); Data: NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST
Posted on 09/20/2023 2:24:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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09/20/2023 2:24:30 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
09/20/2023 2:25:21 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Can SpaceX go retrieve the methane?
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posted on
09/20/2023 2:27:33 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: MtnClimber
Interplanetary cow farts will kill us all.
5.56mm
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posted on
09/20/2023 2:29:11 PM PDT
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M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
To: MtnClimber
Looks like land and water but no lights on the dark side.
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posted on
09/20/2023 2:35:36 PM PDT
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SkyDancer
(If At First You Don't Suceed, Well So Much For Skydiving ~)
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posted on
09/20/2023 2:36:32 PM PDT
by
NWFree
(Sigma male 🤪)
To: MtnClimber
“locating planets where extrasolar life might survive took a step forward”
No, finding one thing that might support life on a planet where that is missing 8 or 9 other elements needed to support life is not taking a step forward. You’re still in the same spot you always were, where Earth is the only planet in the universe known to be capable of supporting life.
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09/20/2023 2:37:40 PM PDT
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Boogieman
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To: MtnClimber
Methane found on distant exoplanet: climate change “scientists” alarmed
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posted on
09/20/2023 2:40:01 PM PDT
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Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: MtnClimber
Argghh ...
That’s not astronomy data ... that’s just some jerkoff’s “impression” of what the exoplanet “might” look like. Utterly worthless, and confusing to non-scientists.
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posted on
09/20/2023 2:41:08 PM PDT
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: SkyDancer
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posted on
09/20/2023 2:42:11 PM PDT
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Methane found on distant exoplanet: women and minorities hurt the most.
To: MtnClimber
Another announcement that gets some people’s hopes up that we finally have found alien life. Not so fast. No one has confirmed life there yet.
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posted on
09/20/2023 3:37:33 PM PDT
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I want the USA back
(Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
To: NorthMountain
So the planet picture is a fake? Some imaginary image of what it should look like?
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posted on
09/20/2023 3:48:54 PM PDT
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SkyDancer
(If At First You Don't Suceed, Well So Much For Skydiving ~)
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He that smelt it, dealt it.
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posted on
09/20/2023 3:50:18 PM PDT
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AFB-XYZ
(Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
To: MtnClimber
Titan is also covered in methane; it doesn’t mean life.
To: SkyDancer
So the planet picture is a fake? Some imaginary image of what it should look like?
Those are artists renditions of what exoplanets “could” look like. We really can’t see them that close.
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posted on
09/20/2023 4:21:39 PM PDT
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telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: SkyDancer
THAT picture is an “artist’s conception” of what the planet might look like. The actual data will consist of a handful of pixels imaged through a spectrometer. Very interesting to astronomers, but not particularly exciting for anybody else to look at.
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09/20/2023 4:46:43 PM PDT
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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