Johann Bode, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Good stuff.
“Planets around other stars are like peas in a pod”
Does this mean ALL planets, or SOME planets? Since it doesn’t say, it is a useless headline.
Seriously, now. Astronomers haven’t observed even a small fraction of all the stars that have planets. Drawing this conclusion is not warranted.
And/or indicating that no two stellar systems are exactly alike.
If it can’t see the planets far out yet at Jovian distances (20-100 year orbits), then all they are seeing IS the inner rocky worlds. And Earth and Venus are similar in size.
This doesn’t disprove the theoretical model that outer planets are gas giants with long orbits.
The Thunderbolts Project posits an electrical universe. They have a YouTube channel and website (Thunderbolts.info). One theory advanced was that our present solar system resulted from a prior solar-jovian system capturing a saturnian brown dwarf system.
Keck.
This pattern, revealed by new W. M. Keck Observatory observations of planetary systems discovered by the Kepler Telescope, could suggest that most planetary systems have a different formation history than the solar system.
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I keep trying to convince people that we are rare and special.
No planet is inhabited but ours, but I believe that The LORD has vast amounts of them out there that will be inhabited as billions and billions of years on into infinity. of increased population needs them. They will all be seeded from the earth. Edens revisited, without the wrong choice concerning sin. Praise The LORD!!!
PBS had a show about the Hubble space telescope.
Here are some images of proto solar systems in Orion Nebula
http://burro.case.edu/Academics/Astr221/SolarSys/Formation/OrionProplyds.jpg
http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/breakthroughs/planetary
They also took a photo of a small area of space, the diameter of a soda straw and found approx 10,000 galaxies with each containing 100 billion stars more or less.
A search at google comes up with the total amount of stars was something like 10 trillion galaxies in the universe and 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars or a “1” with 24 zeros after it. So lots of Star Trek episodes.
The universe is also expanding.
So to sum up we are but a drop on a microscope slide spreading out in some scientists lab. The galaxies are like protozoa.
I think this conclusion might be a little premature. Given the limits of our instrumentation I seriously doubt we are seeing anything close to all the exoplanets orbiting the thousands of nearby stars.
