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It's a Beautiful Baby Exoplanet! Historic Photo Is 1st View of Alien World Being Born
Space.com ^
| 07/02/18
| Mike Wall
Posted on 07/02/2018 12:31:54 PM PDT by Simon Green
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To: Simon Green
Amazing stuff out there ... or there was about 370 years ago.
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:34:26 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Simon Green
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:34:56 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: Slyfox
I think you’ll have trouble getting your papers published if you call it the “Hogsnout Nebula”.
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:36:43 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: NorthMountain
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:38:01 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: Simon Green
That photo reminded me of “The Mote in God’s Eye, an excellent science fiction novel written by Niven and Pournelle.
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:38:38 PM PDT
by
be-baw
(still seeking...)
To: Simon Green
Should name it after Stephan (cough) Hawking.
To: Simon Green
A Beautiful Baby Alien Indeed!
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:44:33 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Roy Moore for the Supreme Court of the USA!)
To: Simon Green
Sure looks fetus like.......
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:44:42 PM PDT
by
Robe
(A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: Robe
Democrats will be lining up to abort it.
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:46:05 PM PDT
by
edh
To: NorthMountain
Viltvodle VI is the home world of the small, blue, fifty-armed Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of what they refer to as "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief". This is their cosmology's version of the end of the Universe, and can be explained by the fact that they believe that the Universe was sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Viltvodle_VI
To: Simon Green
So why does this "planet" appear fully illuminated (rather than like a crescent or half moon)?
ML/NJ
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:49:34 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: Simon Green
Well, that is an interesting proposition based off the image. It would be pretty cool if their analysis was right. Unfortunately, given the distance on that object.... none of us will be alive to see any near-images of what is actually occurring there, lol.
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:56:03 PM PDT
by
VaeVictis
(~Woe to the Conquered~)
To: Simon Green
It will be ready for habitation in a mere 3 billion years!
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:56:40 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: ml/nj
So why does this "planet" appear fully illuminated (rather than like a crescent or half moon)? Because you are not seeing it by reflected light. You are seeing it by emitted light in the "short infrared" wavelengths. It's hot: 1000 C, which puts its peak radiance at around 2250nm. It's glowing.
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:56:47 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Simon Green
Some 4 billion years from now the aliens who inhabit those worlds will come across some photos we left for them showing their baby pictures of the planet.
To: VaeVictis
My third grade teacher once asked the class:
“If you could instantly travel 65 millions years from earth, and had a telescope powerful enough to see all the way back, what would you see?”
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posted on
07/02/2018 1:00:44 PM PDT
by
ConservativeWarrior
(Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
To: ConservativeWarrior
Edit: 65 million *light years from earth
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posted on
07/02/2018 1:01:46 PM PDT
by
ConservativeWarrior
(Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
To: Simon Green
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posted on
07/02/2018 1:14:42 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(See more at Sparklite Times)
To: ConservativeWarrior
A tiny little galaxy, far far away.
Or was the answer supposed to be "Dinosaurs"?
By comparison, the Andromeda galaxy is 2 million light years away.
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posted on
07/02/2018 1:25:15 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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