Planetary Scientist Sara Seager. Image courtesy MIT.
Posted on 11/23/2013 6:43:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Today everybody wants to talk about it (exoplanets) and write about it. There’s a lot of hype. But back then it was very quiet.
There was a huge amount of skepticism too. People don’t like change. I want you to imagine a world where the gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are very far from the star and the terrestrial planets like Earth, Mercury, Venus, and Mars are very close to the star. People had constructed theories on how planetary bodies form based on that one example.
So when the first planets around sun-like stars were found, they were Jupiter-mass planets, but they were several times closer to their star than Mercury is to our Sun. It offended all thoughts, theories, and paradigms … As scientists we’re supposed to be skeptical and push back on new discoveries and theories that are upsetting the system. There was huge skepticism.
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Planetary Scientist Sara Seager. Image courtesy MIT.
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Hmmmm.....
A Real Search for Alien Life: Sara Seager at TEDxCambridge 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnM4SaGc8R0
http://seagerexoplanets.mit.edu/
http://seagerexoplanets.mit.edu/research.htm
Hot Jupiters. Super Earths. Whole planets made of diamond. Our solar system seems pretty boring by some comparisons.
Whoops, I forgot quote marks, that’s a snip from her answer to one of the interviewer’s question.
I just finished watching the video of her presentation. I remain intrigued by her and her work.
Hey, our own solar system has some weird, wild stuff as well.
Tis a fact. But, this is probably the only one we’ll see for ourselves in quite a while. Maybe I just want too much.
Where are the foxes?!
The Schmenge Brothers made me do it.
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