Planet-hunting telescope unearths hot mysteries...

Yahoo News ^ | Jan 5th, 2010

[TaraP]

WASHINGTON – NASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.

The Kepler Telescope, launched in March, discovered the two new heavenly bodies, each circling its own star. Telescope chief scientist Bill Borucki of NASA said the objects are thousands of degrees hotter than the stars they circle. That means they probably aren't planets. They are bigger and hotter than planets in our solar system, including dwarf planets.

"The universe keeps making strange things stranger than we can think of in our imagination," said Jon Morse, head of astrophysics for NASA.

The new discoveries don't quite fit into any definition of known astronomical objects, and so far don't have a classification of their own. Details about the mystery objects were presented Monday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington.

For now, NASA researcher Jason Rowe, who found the objects, said he calls them "hot companions."

How hot? Try 26,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That's hot enough to melt lead or iron.

There are two leading theories for what the objects might be and those theories cover both ends of the cosmic life cycle:

[Perdogg]

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[TaraP]

“The universe keeps making strange things stranger than we can think of in our imagination,” said Jon Morse, head of astrophysics for NASA.

End of Days recorded in the Tanakh:

Tumultuous events will overturn the old world order, as is recorded in these example verses contained in the following Old Testament verses of the Bible:

Deuteronomy 4:29-39 (King James Version): But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy GOD, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them

Matt 24:29 “Immediately after the distress of those days
“’the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.”
(Matthew 24:29-30 NIV

[TaraP]

Ok..Thanks!

[PoloSec]

Call Al Gore he will know what to do about it

[holden]

I knew a guy at the university who had a hot companion.

Maybe these heavenly bodies should be called "nymphs."

HF

[Star Traveler]

Well... sometimes I just call the experts... :-)

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Calling Scully and Mulder... :-)

[Hot Tabasco]

he calls them "hot companions."

I call them "planetary hoochie-mamas".......

[dsrtsage]

Those are simply old planets where evil oil companies did not listen to the climate scientists, and put too much CO2 into the atmosphere.

[Quix]

INDEED. THX

[NYer]

The five planets are all much larger than Earth, much closer to their stars than Earth is to the sun, and way too hot for life, Borucki said. A couple of these planets are close to 3,000 degrees. "Looking at them is like looking at a blast furnace," Borucki said.

I can think of only one other place hotter than here ;-)

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