June 23, 2012
The Milky Way's Alien Planets --160 Billion and Counting! (Weekend Feature)
The Kepler Space Mission's search for habitable planets is in a tiny window representing 1/400th of the Milky Way. "We used to think that the Earth might be unique in our galaxy," said Daniel Kubas, of the Paris Institute of Astrophysics. "But now it seems that there are literally billions of planets with masses similar to Earth orbiting stars in the Milky Way."
According to an analysis of Kepler data this past January, each of the 100 billion or so stars in our galaxy hosts at least 1.6 planets, bringing the number of likely exo worlds to more than 160 billion. Recent research conclude that large numbers of these exoplanets are likely to be small, rocky Earth-like low-mass planets, which appear to be much more abundant than large ones.
"This statistical study tells us that planets around stars are the rule, rather than the exception," said study lead author Arnaud Cassan of the Paris Institute of Astrophysics. "From now on, we should see our galaxy populated not only with billions of bright stars, but imagine them surrounded by as many hidden extrasolar worlds."
To date, astronomers have discovered more than 700 planets beyond our own solar system, with 2,300 additional candidates found by NASA's Kepler space telescope awaiting confirmation.
In the study, the researchers looked at data gathered by a variety of Earth-based telescopes, which scanned millions of stars from 2002 to 2007 for microlensing events, then closely analyzed about 40 of these events and discovered that three betrayed the presence of an alien planet around a star. One of these planets is a bit more massive than Jupiter, one is comparable to Neptune and the third is a so-called "super-Earth" with a mass about five times that of our home planet --an impressive yield considering how perfectly aligned multiple bodies must be to yield an explanet detection via microlensing.
Further, according to the researchers' calculations, every planet in the Milky Way harbors an average of 1.6 planets in the 0.5-10 AU range, which in our solar system corresponds roughly to the swath of space between Venus and Saturn.( Since astronomers estimate that our galaxy contains about 100 billion stars, that works out to at least 160 billion alien planets. The true number of alien worlds may be quite a bit larger than 160 billion. Some planets hug their host stars more closely than 0.5 AU, after all, and others are more far-flung than 10 AU. And a great many likely have no host star at all.
The Daily Galaxy via Kepler Mission and Nature
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Spirituality is Religion and Science United<3
Those positive ones vowed that helping us doesnt help us and therefore will not help us until we help ourselves, unlike the "gfl" types who are more than willing to come down give us new money new govt new system eternal youth etc etc, sounds just like typical earth political promises stepped up to a "galactic" level. Furthering the already quite real possiblity that the whole entire GFL thing is concoted by a few cia agents and several channelers.
The previous star group was called galactic CONFEDERATION, and this GFL stuff never showed up till the mid 90's when the cabal are supposedly to have lost their alien overlord controllers, leaving them with only their wits, and their wits tell them hey we can do this like we do all the other stuff. They are attepting to sell us something that is easily seen through. They know what we want just like politicians know what we want, by asking us, then they come back promising us what we ask for, and of course never giving it.
I wish I saved the link but I read this article once about the light chambers and how they are actually something that forces your essence/soul to be trapped here and NOT ascend, effectively keeping you stuck here to be there servants, which is what they keep telling us, "we want only those who serve" yeah cause those with backbones and freewill wont be trodden upon.
My second reply was a joke :P... I was just interested in the extense variety of conscious life in our universe, (wich I assume there is) only for that I'm arrogant?
yes havent you learned yet what happens here. If you disagree with people who "work with" the gfl then you are an arrogant athiest satanist disnfo cabal dark hat evil demon reptilian child.
Hmpf! *Turns face*
That is the system, not the subject of science, the setting out of hypothesis, experiment, conclusion is not flawed, what is flawed is humans bringing in their personal beliefs into the science.
There is a staggering amount of thesists in science fields, are they there to find the answers or there to prove their belief, very important difference.
Those who truly respect the work of good science have no problem changing their views to updated proofs. Those still mired int heir personal belief systems tend to attempt to use science to prove what they believe, this is the pseudoscience we epxerience here in the "new age" groups.
So you think einstein is a robot with no imagination? or how abotut all the other people who imagined all the theories that many are taking to be truth without proofs like multidimensional theories string theories etc etc.
The problem isnt with science at all , it is with the people in science who do not treat it respectfully.
Not as much as people who do not attempt to prove anything and just say whatever they feel in their hearts as truth and attack others for saying anything to the contrary. These scientists who we now laugh at from OUR past are the ones who brought us where we are today through trial and error. If it wasnt for them you would be going to the local doctor to have holes drilled in your head everytime you have a headache, or maybe walk a few miles to the closest well for fresh water hoping it isnt contaminated because you have no sciene to test it with, or how about having to write your words down on paper or stone and ship them by camel or pack animals across the earth, waiting months or even years for a reply. If it wasnt for those people asking questions and trying to prove their questions right or wrong, you wouldnt be in your nice comfy house chatting away on your magic machine which can talk to anyone on earth or even in orbit instantly.
thanks for sharing this Sha'man; goes to show we arent the only ones existing LOL
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This is not to say i don't believe it, but how does our planet suddenly turn into a sun?
It doesnt, it wont and it cant, Notice how they have their own definition of what a star is. this is really getting way out of hand with the nonsensical statements about what is happening and what will happen.
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