An artist's conception of a young planet in a distant orbit around its host star. The star still harbors a debris disk, remnant material from star and planet formation, interior to the planet's orbit. (NASA/JPL-CALTECH)
1 posted on
12/06/2013 8:16:03 PM PST by
NYer
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2 posted on
12/06/2013 8:16:35 PM PST by
NYer
("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)
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For those who are intrigued by the universe.
3 posted on
12/06/2013 8:20:03 PM PST by
NYer
("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)
To: NYer
4 posted on
12/06/2013 8:20:40 PM PST by
shankbear
(The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
To: NYer
You tell it to its face that it is moving in a bizarre orbit!
It can go anywhere it wants.
5 posted on
12/06/2013 8:20:59 PM PST by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: NYer
7 posted on
12/06/2013 8:21:32 PM PST by
Sgt_Schultze
(A half-truth is a complete lie)
To: NYer
A planet bigger then our Jupiter ... I’m jealous.
8 posted on
12/06/2013 8:23:50 PM PST by
doc1019
(Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened!)
To: NYer
I bet gravity sucks big time on that planet.
10 posted on
12/06/2013 8:27:08 PM PST by
Rebelbase
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To: NYer
Thank you for posting this.
11 posted on
12/06/2013 8:27:29 PM PST by
UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: NYer
I’m a hermit, beyond that I have few requirements, mostly involving a hydrogen/oxygen/temperature mix...Call me, I’m interested.
13 posted on
12/06/2013 8:33:21 PM PST by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: NYer
Cool indeed..
I wonder though why something unexpected is often seen as strange, alien whatever...
We are developing the technology to get out of the box of the night shy, but are we collectively smart enough to do so....
To: NYer
Every star we can see has planets and moons in rotation of their own solar systems. Deep space Hubble shows us innumerable galaxies of stars.
When I get overwhelmed by what links to real news that FR provides, I try to buffer my sanity by accepting that the entire human race really has no clue about the universe.
We have allowed ourselves to be consumed by Muslims, Gays, Communists, and Political Correctness, when we should have been already working on space shipyards.
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Alien planet 11 times bigger than Jupiter. . . . How much bigger is it than Uranus?
To: NYer
This throws out all the current theories about how solar systems formed billions of years ago.
The more knowledge we gain of the universe through new technology the more we realize there are some things we really don’t have figured out.
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