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Posted on 05/07/2017 10:08:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
I find it curious that these scientist can be soo certain of another “Solar System”, only 10 lights away and the existence of a 9th planet in our own solar system remains a mystery.
Beware of eagerness to find a body double. It makes for good press, but isn’t good science.
Are baby solar systems where dark matter comes from?
Yes. And you have to change the diapers frequently to get rid of the dark matter.
Planet “Plimsoul”
Good one! Have to admit it took me a second to get it.
What a good time for music....
For the same reason it’s easier to find your car keys under a street light rather than out in the weeds at night. “Little” solar systems have a star to work with while it’s very dark out in the Kuiper belt, as seen from here.
Our fastest traveling probe to-date is New Horizons, clocking 36,000 Mph.
If New Horizons were pointed at the Epsilon Eridani system, it would do a fly-by approximately 190,000 years from now.
That’s how far away 10 light years is.
I thought Alpha Centauri was the closest system, at about 40 light years. Lost in Space said so.
Home of The Munchkins..........
Awesome.
Very helpful information. /s
With the astrophysicist community talking about solar systems like ours with earth like planets, there is one question: How do we investigate such systems that are light years away? By the time we get any explorer craft back from a round-trip exploration mission, there might not be humans available to analyze the data.
Look, it was just a few years ago where we had no proof whatsoever other solar systems even existed. Now we know these systems seem to exist through out the entire universe. Should we have said at the time, "Why bother, we won't be able to get there and back for thousands or millions of years anway?" This was all done without sending anyone anywhere. If you're waiting for a manned spacecraft or even a unmanned spacecraft to go to the stars and return with data, you have a very long wait.
It's why non-manned missions in our own solar system are conducting research and collecting data and transmitting it back electronically. So much data we'll be studying it for years to come. As technology currently exists, humans could never go or do what our unmanned spacecraft are doing.
Bottom line here, if you're talking about going to the stars it will be done by relying on optical and other types of telescopes and unmanned spacecraft, to visit, study, and research interstellar space outside of our own solar system, for hundreds of years to come.
We are alone...
Why did you put [sic] after only? Makes no sense.
Because ten light years is a loooooong way from here. Not “only”
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It is just visible matter and invisible matter. Dark matter is a racist description in today’s universities.
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