artist's conception of LHS 3844b
Posted on 10/14/2019 8:02:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun... the planet's surface may resemble those of Earth's Moon or Mercury: The planet likely has little to no atmosphere and could be covered in the same cooled volcanic material found in the dark areas of the Moon's surface, called mare.
Discovered in 2018 by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS) mission, planet LHS 3844b is located 48.6 light-years from Earth and has a radius 1.3 times that of Earth. It orbits a small, cool type of star called an M dwarf - especially noteworthy because, as the most common and long-lived type of star in the Milky Way galaxy, M dwarfs may host a high percentage of the total number of planets in the galaxy.
...during follow-up observations, Spitzer was able to detect light from the surface of LHS 3844b. The planet makes one full revolution around its parent star in just 11 hours. With such a tight orbit, LHS 3844b is most likely "tidally locked," which is when one side of a planet permanently faces the star. The star-facing side, or dayside, is about 1,410 degrees Fahrenheit (770 degrees Celsius). Being extremely hot, the planet radiates a lot of infrared light, and Spitzer is an infrared telescope. The planet's parent star is relatively cool (though still much hotter than the planet), making direct observation of LHS 3844b's dayside possible.
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That looks eerily close to what Planet X looks like. IF they want to “borrow’ Godzilla and Rodan to fight Monster Zero, don’t do it! it’s a trap.
I'm having a C.S. Lewis flashback.
Too hot to sustain life.
No one has managed to refute the anthropic principle yet.
We’re still scouring thaf heavens for a habitable exoplanet.
[singing] hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to the burlesque show....
Total nose picking pulling out boogers. Calling this science is total fiction. Don’t you love the exact figures they toss around without — 1410° Fahrenheit (770°C) without bothering to mention the extremely sketchy degree of certainty they’d have to have trying to measure an itty-bitty rock only about 10,400 miles in diameter at the end of an arc of observation 40plus light years long (it ain’t even a pixel pimple on that scale!) while it’s rushing around it’s star in just eleven hours? “If it is this, it may be that” and ‘it could be, but might be this”. . . but these nose pickers can say with authority that it may have a surface like that of our moon or Mercury, when WE couldn’t predict the surfaces of any of our local neighbors accurately INCLUDING Mercury or the back side of our own Moon until we actually went and looked! Don’t get me started on what they thought was under the clouds of Venus just a few short decades ago! Not to mention these guys don’t have a firm grasp on what forces have caused the various features we DO see on the variety of surfaces in our local neighborhood (ask them to explain the numerous hexagonal sided craters we see on the moon, Mars, and even on asteroids), yet they think they can make a prediction about the surface of this supposed “rocky” planet some 48 light years away which they can’t even really see? Talk about irrereproduceable claims and pseudo science! This takes the cake.
Which is one of the 100+ reasons that finding life forms on any other planet is highly unlikely.
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun
The last time I looked, ALL stars, except Sol, are light years "beyond the Sun". And, it'd better stay that way. Who wrote this, a 3nd grader? For 2nd graders?
Anyway, you are right - even in our own Solar System, actual findings have been a surprise at almost every turn, with a GREAT deal still unknown or hotly debated...
(ask them to explain the numerous hexagonal sided craters we see on the moon, Mars, and even on asteroids)...
Those are from rifled meteors.
:)
We are alone...
At least you’ve proposed a hypothesis. . .
Thanks SC for the posting. I was coming to similar conclusions but not quite as extreme Swordmaker offers when one considers the astronomic devices, methods and distances used to offer what may be occurring from this objects observation.
“Beyond the sun. . . “ You spotted that howler, too, eh? I was almost ROTFLMAO! over that one. Do they seriously mean this particular star is just over-that-away, looking beyond the sun, or is it out that-away, in some other direction??? Can we all spell “Hyperbole”, boys and girls? Paul R. and I, can.
Psalms 19:1, “The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
I just wish you wouldn't hold back so much. ;^)
Exoplanet scientists were Nobel prize winners this year, I just haven't posted it. It isn't these guys of course.
There’s no need to refute it, it is a philosophical question, a.k.a., a blind belief.
> The anthropic principle usually divides into two types, weak and strong. The weak anthropic principle simply states that the current Universe is of the form that allows intelligent observers. In other words, there is the right amount of complexity and time for intelligence to evolve. This is obviously true and few people disagree with this formulation of the anthropic principle.
> The strong anthropic principle says the Universe has these conditions because it *must* have them in order to have intelligence life (us). Our existence is then end goal of a plan. The strong form of the anthropic principle goes against the Copernican principle by insisting the we are special, an intellectual center of the Universe (all intelligent species would be at their “center”), because we exist and think.
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/cosmo/lectures/lec24.html
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