[KevinDavis]

When do you think that we will find a Earth like planet??

[KevinDavis]

[Solamente]

Hundreds have been found - getting there will be a bitch.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

When's sunrise?

[JOE6PAK]

Ready for launch!

[Buck W.]

Is it a red planet or a blue planet?

[Beaker]

*ping*

[cripplecreek]

At the rate our imaging and detection technology is advancing I think we'll spot something "earthlike" within the next ten years.

[Redcloak]

I've always loved these "artist's renditions"...

[muir_redwoods]

Nightfall by Azimov

[I Drive Too Fast]

Rent the movie Pitch Black. They depict 3 suns around that planet also.

[RightWhale]

When do you think that we will find a Earth like planet??

Step outdoors. That is probably the only one, although it might be possible to find one of the right mass, etc. Venus or Mars, for example, and get Kyoto to suggest an economic way to improve the climate.

[SunkenCiv]

"How that planet formed in such a complicated setting is very puzzling. I believe there is yet much to be learned about how giant planets are formed," Konacki said.

Capture!

[SunkenCiv]

Google

[SunkenCiv]

probably a dead link, but I didn't check it.

Europe's Science Machine
by Govert Schilling

Apart from the four main (8.2 meter) telescopes, ESO is planning at least three 1.8-meter auxiliary telescopes to increase the interferometric capabilities of the VLT. In interferometric mode, signals from two or more telescopes are combined to yield the same resolution as a single 130-meter mirror.

[Arthalion]

We've found lots of planets, but it's unlikely that we'll spot anything Earth-like until the Terrestrial Planet Finder launches in 2014. Note that I define "Earth-like" as any planet between .5 and 1.5 Earth masses with an atmosphere, which resides in a stable orbit within the habitable zone around an equally stable star. "Earth-like" doesn't mean life...it's likely that any planets we find will either be completely sterile, or they will have plant life completely unlike anything we've ever seen. These Star Trek shows where people stumble across planets thickly forested with redwoods and conifers are pure fantasy.

[SunkenCiv]

Fiction: Isaac Asimov's 'Nightfall'
http://doctord.dyndns.org:8000/Stories/Nightfall.htm

[SunkenCiv]

From July 2005. Goodnight all.

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[Larry Lucido]

All that sunlight would burn out your lawn.

[GeronL]

WOW. that sounds pretty cool

[ChadGore]

Hmm this part is interesting:

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The reason for this disparity is that the main technique for locating planets -- the radial velocity method -- is not well-suited for finding planets with more than one star.

"Single stars are much easier to work with, since the shape of the spectrum stays the same," Konacki explained.

By watching for wobbles in a star’s spectrum, astronomers can infer the gravitational tug from a nearby planet. But when there is a companion star, its light competes with that of the main star. Konacki has developed a method to extract the planet wobbles from this messy, combined spectrum. He found this triple-sun planet in the first 20 stars he looked at. He plans to survey about 450 stars in the future.

The discovery is reported in the July 14 issue of Nature. Animations created by JPL's PlanetQuest show the orbital motion of the system, as well as what it looks like from a hypothetical moon.