Kepler telescope discovers crop of 104 new Exoplanets, 4 look promising - 18 July 2016

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I like updating these reports of Exo planets to see where NASA is currently
in the planet hunting game. Its been 20 years since the first acknowledged
planet was found outside our solar system.

Previous thread....
Kepler telescope discovers 100 Earth-sized planets 9 of which are in the 'Goldilocks' zone...
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NASA telescope discovers 100+ new planets

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Published on 21 Jul 2016

Scientists may be one step closer to discovering extraterrestrial life. NASA’s Kepler
telescope recently discovered 104 exoplanets, meaning planets outside our solar
system, more than 100 light years away from Earth. RT America’s Brigida Santos
reports that scientist believe two of the planets are close enough to the star they orbit
to be hospitable for life.


Kepler Spacecraft telescope discovers crop of 104 new planets, 4 look promising


Published time: 19 Jul, 2016 03:46


https://www.rt.com/usa/352008-kepler-spacecraft-discovers-crop-planets/


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Earth-like planets among 100+ identified by UH, astronomers and NASA

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Published on 18 Jul 2016

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) and the Maunakea
observatories play a critical role in major astronomical discoveries. In July 2016, NASA
and an international team of astronomers announced that they identified 100 new
planets, including five bearing similarities to Earth.

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Published on 18 Jul 2016


NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has been hard at work scanning the universe for
planetary bodies and has now confirmed a whopping 104 of them outside our solar
system as part of its K2 mission. NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has been hard at
work scanning the universe for planetary bodies and has now confirmed a whopping
104 of them outside our solar system as part of its K2 mission. Four of the orbs are
believed to be rocky and two rest within their star’s habitable zone. According to
NASA, "The planets, all between 20 and 50 percent larger than Earth by diameter,
are orbiting the M dwarf star K2-72, found 181 light years away...The host star is
less than half the size of the sun and less bright. The planets’ orbital periods range
from five and a half to 24 days, and two of them may experience irradiation levels
from their star comparable to those on Earth. Despite their tight orbits...the
possibility that life could arise on a planet around such a star cannot be ruled out."
Validation of exoplanets is a multi-stage process. Researchers study the Kepler’s K2
Mission data and nominate celestial bodies for review. A team then assesses the
candidates by studying high-resolution images and readings captured by the
telescope.

NASA’s Kepler Spots Over 100 New Exoplanets, Some In Habitable Zone

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Nasa's Kepler spacecraft discovers a treasure trove of more than 100
new planets - and FOUR could hold alien life
Astronomers have reported finding 104 new planets
Planets are orbiting the M dwarf star K2-72, found 181 light years away
Possibility of life on new planets around such a star cannot be ruled out
Four of the planets have been found to be rocky, and could host alien life

By Shivali Best For Mailonline

Published: 18:04, 18 July 2016 | Updated: 13:32, 19 July 2016


An international team of astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of new worlds.



So far they have reported finding 197 planet candidates, with 104 planets
confirmed by scientists.

The planets, which are all between 20 and 50 per cent larger than Earth by
diameter, are orbiting the M dwarf star K2-72, found 181 light years away.

A crop of more than 100 planets, discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope,
includes four in Earths size-range orbiting a single dwarf star. Two of these
planets are too hot to support life as we know it, but two are in the stars
'habitable' zone, where liquid water could exist on the surface. These small,
rocky worlds are far closer to their star than Mercury is to our sun.

A crop of more than 100 planets, discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope,
includes four in Earths size-range orbiting a single dwarf star. Two of these planets
are too hot to support life as we know it, but two are in the stars 'habitable' zone,
where liquid water could exist on the surface. These small, rocky worlds are far
closer to their star than Mercury is to our sun.

The scientists, led by the University of Arizona, say that the possibility of life on
the new planets around such a star cannot be ruled out.

Four of the planets discovered have been found to be rocky, and could host alien life.

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They are thought to be between 20 and 50 per cent more massive than Earth, and they orbit a star smaller than our sun.

Two of the worlds could have radiation levels that are similar to Earth.

The huge finding of planets was found by combining data with follow-up observations
by earth-based telescopes including the North Gemini telescope and the WM Keck
Observatory in Hawaii.

Both Kepler and its K2 mission discover new planets by measuring the subtle dip in a
star's brightness caused by a planet passing in front of its star.

In its initial mission, Kepler surveyed just one patch of sky in the northern hemisphere,
measuring the frequency of planets whose size and temperature might be similar to Earth
orbiting stars similar to our sun.

In the spacecraft's extended mission in 2013, it lost its ability to precisely stare at its
original target area, but a fix created a second life for the telescope.After the fix, Kepler
started its K2 mission, which has provided an ecliptic field of view with greater opportunities
for Earth-based observatories in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Because
it covers more of the sky, the K2 mission is capable of observing a larger fraction of cooler,
smaller, red-dwarf type stars.

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An international team of scientists discovered more than 100 planets based on images from
Kepler operating in the 'K2 Mission'. This image montage showing the Maunakea Observatories,
Kepler Space Telescope, and night sky with K2 Fields and discovered planetary systems (dots) overlaid

Such stars are much more common in the Milky Way than sun-like stars, which means that nearby
stars will predominantly be red dwarfs.

Professor Ian Crossfield, a researcher at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory,
who led the study, said: 'An analogy would be to say that Kepler performed a demographic study,
while the K2 mission focuses on the bright and nearby stars with different types of planets.

'The K2 mission allows us to increase the number of small, red stars by a factor of 20, significantly
increasing the number of astronomical 'movie stars' that make the best systems for further study.'

To validate the candidate planets, researchers studied high-resolution images of the planet-hosting
stars as well as high-resolution optical spectroscopy data.This data gives an idea of the physical
properties of a star, such as mass, radius and temperature, which in turn gives an idea of the
physical properties of the planets orbiting around it. Dr Steve Howell, project scientist for Kepler
and K2 at NASA's Ames Research Centre in Moffett Field, California, said: 'This bountiful list of
validated exoplanets from the K2 mission highlights the fact that the targeted examination of bright
stars and nearby stars along the ecliptic is providing many interesting new planets.'



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Scientists have found hundreds of exoplanets with dozens thought to have the potential to host
alien life. The image above shows some of the recent small planets to be found by the Kepler
Space Telescope that exist in the habitable zone around their star where liquid water may exist

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Nasa's Kepler spacecraft discovers a treasure trove of more than 100 new planets

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Published on 20 Jul 2016

Nasa's Kepler spacecraft discovers a treasure trove of more than 100 new planets
- and FOUR could hold alien life. An international team of astronomers have
discovered a treasure trove of new worlds.So far they have reported finding 197
planet candidates, with 104 planets confirmed by scientists.The planets, which
are all between 20 and 50 per cent larger than Earth by diameter, are orbiting
the M dwarf star K2-72, found 181 light years away. The scientists, led by the
University of Arizona, say that the possibility of life on the new planets around
such a star cannot be ruled out.

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Venus' secrets unveiled

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Published on 20 Jul 2016

Venus' secrets unveiled: Clouds shrouding planet's surface could provide clues to
what lies beneath.Venus is covered in a dense layer of thick cloud, which has been
a problem for scientists in the past since it obscures their view of the planet's
surface.But instead of preventing us from seeing the surface, these clouds might
actually reveal what is going on beneath them on the hot, dimly-lit surface of the
planet, according to a new study.

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Bump.....

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Personally, I find these stories "truffles" for the science community. With some of the best minds on the planet poring over data and making comparative interpretations always preceded with the euphemistic terms of "IF", "MAYBE" or "PERHAPS".

Yet we know virtually nothing of our Moon and the planets in our own neighbourhood other than similar satellite data.

There is probably some very real data and information we will never see which would enlighten us all if released and there lies the problem. Profit from ignorance.

The thread is indeed interesting though this type of speculation has virtually no real value as presented.

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The thread is indeed interesting though this type of speculation has virtually no real value as presented.

I know , I really update them to show where the mainstream disclosure is at, and
its further on from 20 years ago and the discovery of the first exo planets and
they have all but said there is life on other planets.

My stance as is many in the alternate community is on the lines of the
Secret space programme and all that speculates and the universe is
teaming with life and we are probably related to some of them and
they have been here and visiting for eons.

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NASA's Kepler telescope just found two planets that could support life

Wow.
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http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-s-kepler-telescope-just-found-two-planets-that-could-support-life

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Two super-Earth-sized planets discovered orbiting a nearby star

July 20, 2016 by Tomasz Nowakowski


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-07-super-earth-sized-planets-orbiting-nearby-star.html#jCp


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Earth-like Planets

http://www.solstation.com/planets/earths.htm

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Wolf 1061c - the closest potentially habitable exoplanet

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Published on 16 Dec 2015
Just 14 light years away from Earth, the red dwarf star Wolf 1061 is orbited by
three planets. Exoplanet Wolf 1061c is more than four times the mass of the Earth,
but sits within the “Goldilocks zone” - where liquid water might exist. So far, Wolf
1061c is the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system.

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NASA Finds Most Earth-Like Planet Yet

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Published on 23 Jul 2015


Researchers have discovered the most similar planet yet to Earth, 1,400 light-years away. Kepler-452b orbits its star in 385 days, just 20 days longer than our own year. Its star is just 4% larger, a billion and a half years older, and 20% brighter than the sun, meaning 452b is firmly in the “goldilocks” habitable zone that puts the odds of it being rocky, like Earth, between 50-62%.

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Researchers have discovered the most similar planet yet to Earth, 1,400 light-years away. Kepler-452b orbits its star in 385 days, just 20 days longer than our own year. Its star is just 4% larger, a billion and a half years older, and 20% brighter than the sun, meaning 452b is firmly in the “goldilocks” habitable zone that puts the odds of it being rocky, like Earth, between 50-62%.

Scientist Jeff Coughlin says “this is the first possibly rocky, habitable planet around a solar-type star.” All 11 previously discovered exoplanets of similar size and orbit circle smaller, cooler stars.

The planet was found by the Kepler telescope, which searches for possible Earth-twins by observing periodic dips in the brightness of stars as planets pass before them, like the way our moon causes an eclipse here on Earth.

The Kepler telescope stared at a single patch of the Milky Way for four years before its pointing system failed in 2013, but the mission still succeeded in cataloguing more than 4,600 exoplanet candidates. This means astronomers still have huge amounts of data to sort through and make new findings, like this discovery. With 452b, just over 1,000 of the exoplanet candidates have now been confirmed.

20 years ago this fall, the first exoplanet orbiting a distant star was discovered.

And with the successor to Kepler launching in 2017, the pace of discovery is about to increase substantially. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (or TESS), will be able to cover hundreds of times as much sky as the Kepler mission, and will identify prime targets for further examination by the successor to Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope, set for an October 2018 launch.

Astronomers can now project with some degree of confidence that of the 600 stars within 30 light-years of Earth, there should be roughly 60 potential earth-twins.

So, according to Dr. Didier Queloz, the man who co-discovered that first earth-like planet 20 years ago, “If we keep working so well and so enthusiastically, the issue of life on another planet will be solved.”

Like and share this video to help others on our little rock become aware of this good news. For the video editor Brendan Plank, I’m his brother Bryce, thanks for watching.

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Earth's TWIN Within Reach

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Published on 3 Jun 2015


NASA believes they found a planet with life on it - aliens - and it's almost as if it
were Earth's twin - Gliese 581G.Astronomers are proclaiming they have discovered
a planet they believe has a 100% chance of having life on it.The Gliese 581 star is
located about 20 light years away in the constellation Libra. Of the billions of stars
in the sky, Gliese 581 is only the 89th star away from our own sun in terms of distance.

In 2005 a string of six of planets were detected orbiting the star, and were named
Gliese B, C, D, E, F & G. The detection method used was an indirect method,
meaning the the planets can not be viewed with a telescope. Rather the variable
light from the star is measured as the planets orbit around it, which gives off
identifiable signals, measurable with the use of a spectrometer.

It was calculated that Gliese D & G were in that perfect not-too-hot, not-too-cold
Goldilocks zone, just the ideal distance away from the star to be able to support
life, and in fact, some astronomers are 100% certain that they do.“I would say that
my own personal feeling is that the chance of life on this planet are 100%. I have
almost no doubt about it.” - Astronomy Professor Steven S. Vogt, University of
California, co-discoverer of Gliese 581G

A massive campaign went into beaming a message from Earth to the Gliese
system, including over 500 messages selected from over half a million entires,
using the RT-70 radar telescope of Ukraine's National Space Agency.Shortly after,
the existence of these planets was brought into question when the spectrometer
method was thought to be flawed, but a new study headed by Dr. Anglada and the
Queen Mary University of London, has verified that the original findings were
correct.Could this actually be our closest life supporting neighbor…only 20 light
years away?...if so…what might life there be like?

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Neighbouring star Proxima Centauri has Earth-sized planet

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
24 / 8 /16

The nearest habitable world beyond our Solar System might be
right on our doorstep - astronomically speaking.Scientists say
their investigations of the closest star, Proxima Centauri, show
it to have an Earth-sized planet orbiting about it.

What is more, this rocky globe is moving in a zone that would
make liquid water on its surface a possibility.

Proxima is 40 trillion km away and would take a spacecraft
using current technology thousands of years to reach.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37167390

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REUTERS.....

Science News | Wed Aug 24, 2016 3:30pm EDT

Scientists find Earth-like planet circling sun's nearest neighbour

By Irene Klotz

Scientists have discovered a planet that appears to be similar to Earth circling the
star closest to the sun, potentially a major step in the quest to find out if life exists
elsewhere in the universe, research published on Wednesday showed.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-planet-idUSKCN10Z28P

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NASA Kepler Discoveries Earth 2 Space agency reveals new planet capable of supporting LIFE

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Published on 27 Jul 2016
Latest news go here: https://www..com/channel/UCDAlckgvEet...

NASA Kepler Discoveries Earth 2 Space agency reveals new planet capable
of supporting LIFE.An astonishing scientific discovery that could forever
change the destiny of the human race has been made - another planet
capable of sustaining human life

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Breaking News: Closest Ever Earth-like Planet Discovered Orbiting Proxima Centauri

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Published on 14 Aug 2016

Scientists are preparing to unveil a new planet in our galactic neighbourhood which
is "believed to be Earth-like" and orbits its star at a distance that could favour life,
German weekly Der Spiegel reported on August 12, 2016.

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A 'Habitable' Planet Found Around Nearest Star Proxima Centauri

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Published on 18 Aug 2016

Does the nearest star to our solar system host worlds of its own? 2016 could be the
year we find out, as the nearby red dwarf star Proxima Centauri gets scrutinized by
astronomers in unprecedented detail using a variety of search methods.

One of the most exciting is the Pale Red Dot initiative. Led by the European
Southern Observatory (ESO) scientists, Pale Red Dot is a public campaign to
examine Proxima Centauri for exoplanets using the radial velocity method, which
looks to tease out the signal of an orbiting planet tugging on its host star. 51 Pegasi
– the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star in 1995 – was discovered
using this method, and hundreds of discoveries that followed.

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New planet ‘could be another Earth just on our doorstep’ – astronomer

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Published on 24 Aug 2016

Astronomers have detected a new planet orbiting the star Proxima Centauri, which
is four light years away from Earth. The planet is similar to the size of Earth and the
right distance away from the star it orbits to have liquid water. Lisa Kaltenegger, the
director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, tells RT America’s Anya
Parampil that the new planet “could be another Earth just on our doorstep.”

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A fly-through of the Proxima Centauri system

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Published on 24 Aug 2016

This video takes the viewer from Earth to the closest star, Proxima Centauri. Here
we can see the planet Proxima b, which orbits its red dwarf star every 11.2 days.
This planet orbits within the habitable zone, shown in green, which means that
liquid water could exist on its surface.

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Alien World 'Proxima b' Around Nearest Star Could Be Earth-Like | Video

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Published on 24 Aug 2016

A possibly rocky planet, just 1.3x more massive than Earth, has been detected in
the "habitable zone" of the nearby red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. Just 4.22 light-
years away, this system is the closest to our sun. -- Full Story:
http://goo.gl/Qb33Q6

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Proxima Centauri b - Press Conference at ESO HQ - HD

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Published on 24 Aug 2016

On 24 August 2016 at 13:00 CEST, ESO hosted a press conference
at its Headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany.

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Where should we look for alien life?

By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website
25 August 2016


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In the film Interstellar, astronauts leave Earth in search of other habitable planets

Astronomers have discovered a small planet around Proxima Centauri, the closest
star to the Sun. But how do astronomers decide whether a planet is hospitable to life?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37158561

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New Solar System objects revealed
From the section Science & Environment

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In the last few decades, astronomers have discovered a host of distant objects in the outer Solar System

Astronomers in the US have uncovered previously unknown objects in the outer reaches of the Solar System.
They include an icy body with an orbit that takes it so far from the Sun that it is probably influenced by the
gravity of other stars.The discoveries were found during an effort to locate a possible ninth planet, whose
presence has been inferred indirectly.The study is set to be published by The Astronomical Journal.
Co-authors Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo have submitted the details of their discoveries to the Minor Planet
Center, which catalogues such objects, along with asteroids and comets.

Their search was carried out using several observatories around the world, including the the four-metre Blanco
telescope in Chile and the eight-metre Subaru telescope in Hawaii.One of the new objects, known for now as
2014 FE72, is the first distant Oort Cloud object found with an orbit entirely beyond Neptune. Its orbit takes it
some 3,000 times further than the Earth is from the Sun.The Oort Cloud is the large shell of objects that occupies
the outermost region of the Solar System.

Larger theory

Dr Sheppard, from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington and Dr Trujillo, from Northern Arizona University,
have been analysing how the new planet-like bodies fit into larger theories about a ninth planet lurking in the Solar
System's furthest reaches.The evidence for this planet has largely been deduced by peculiarities of distant Solar System
objects.One of the new celestial bodies, 2013 FT28, shares characteristics of its orbit in common with the bodies whose
positions and movements lent support to the planet nine idea - but it also shows some differences. Based on analysis of
other small bodies in the outer Solar System, astronomers have proposed that - if it exists - the ninth planet is several
times more massive than Earth and is at least 200 times further than the distance between the Sun and Earth.

The new work should help constrain the location of this proposed ninth planet. "The smaller objects can lead us to the
much bigger planet we think exists out there," said Dr Sheppard."The more we discover, the better we will be able to
understand what is going on in the outer Solar System." Pluto, discovered in 1930, was previously known as the ninth
planet. But its planetary status was removed in 2006, following the discovery of an object of comparable size in the
Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies just beyond Neptune.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37223076

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NASA Astrophysicist: Number of Potentially Habitable Planets Is Greater Than The Number of People Alive on Earth

By David on 31 August 2016 GMT UFO Activity

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‘Proxima b wasn’t discovered overnight. The closest exoplanet to Earth in the universe – announced Wednesday –
is validation for the hard work scientists have been doing for years to find another planet as habitable as our own.

Mission Centaur, which also focuses on the star system Alpha Centauri, is a new project and a non-profit space
mission hoping to launch their space telescope next year. The documentary “The Search for Earth Proxima” features
astronomers involved at The SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, European Southern Observatory, VLT,
ALMA, Triple Ring Technologies, Positron Dynamics, Onda Corporation and La Ventana Cine.’

Read more: NASA Astrophysicist: Number of Potentially Habitable Planets Is Greater Than The Number of People Alive on Earth

http://www.alternet.org/documentaries/nasa-astrophysicist-number-potentially-habitable-planets-greater-number-people-alive

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Life on Mars: Moment Nasa crew emerges from year-long trial

29 August 2016 Last updated at 09:52 BST

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A Nasa team has emerged from a Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in
near isolation for a year.The location for the experiment was chosen because its
terrain is similar to that of the Red Planet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37211096


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SpaceX rocket: Explosion at Kennedy Space Center ahead of launch


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There has been an explosion on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida,
where the aerospace company SpaceX was readying an unmanned rocket for launch.
The cause of the blast is not clear and it is not known if anyone was hurt.Nasa said
SpaceX was test-firing a rocket which was due to take a satellite into space this
weekend.The force of the blast shook buildings several miles away.

Local emergency officials described the incident as a "catastrophic abort during a static
test fire".In a tweet, the Brevard County Emergency Management Office said there was
no threat to the public.SpaceX is seeking to create a new era of reusable rockets and
affordable private space travel and has used its Falcon-9 rocket to take supplies to the
International Space Station (ISS).In April, the California-based company successfully
landed a Falcon-9 on an ocean platform, after four previous attempts failed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37247077

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Why have I posted this here ? well at the end he gives a prediction that a Earth
type with water will be discovered in the next five years ....

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This CIA-Backed D-Wave Quantum Computer Will Change Your View Of Reality Forever

By David on 3 September 2016 GMT What is Reality?


ACTIVIST POST....


This CIA-Backed D-Wave Quantum Computer Will Change Your View of Reality Forever

TOPICS:Artificial IntelligenceCIAMilitaryPiper McGowin.

September 2, 2016

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By Piper McGowin

‘Meanwhile as everyone was busy arguing over the bread and circus elections, the CIA
was busy funding a computer so powerful that it is described as “tapping into the
fundamental fabric of reality” and the man who owns the company says being near one
is like “standing at the altar of an alien God.”

What exactly do you suppose they are doing with it?

You have to take a few minutes and watch this. It will change the way you look at “reality” forever.’

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Source
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/09/cia-backed-d-wave-quantum-computer-video.html

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Super Earths New Planets Found! 2017

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Published on 20 Jan 2017
Astronomers working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile
have discovered seven planets orbiting the star Gliese 667C. Two exoplanets have .

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NASA full press conference on discovery of 7 Earth-like exoplanets


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Published on 22 Feb 2017
NASA scientists announced Wednesday that they had discovered seven Earth-sized
exoplanets 40 light years away, three of which may be able to sustain life.

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Star's seven Earth-sized worlds set record

By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website

Seven Earth sized planets...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLxrCRfBdi0


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Artwork: It's the largest number of Earth-sized planets ever found orbiting the same star
Astronomers have detected a record seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a single star.

The researchers say that all seven could potentially support liquid water on the
surface, depending on the other properties of those planets.However, three of
these worlds are within the "habitable" zone where life is considered a possibility.
The compact system of exoplanets orbits Trappist-1, a low-mass, cool star located
40 light-years away from Earth.The planets were detected using Nasa's Spitzer
Space Telescope and several ground-based observatories are described in the
journal Nature.

Where should we look for alien life?

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read more...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39034050

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As David Icke has been saying for many years that he saw 2016/7/8 as possible
pivotal years we have been seeing this politically and even in sport how about
disclosure ???

Certainly I cannot remember scientists being this optimistic in these NASA press
releases on Exo planets....I'm talking mainstream of course not the secret space
programme we speculated have existed for decades......

These planets are so far away that its all speculation but does give them a good PR
to the public and a funding renewal . Though one other significant thing is the stars
a Dwarf Sun and is very common in the universe so they insinuated there could be
many more earth like planets and of course some could be much closer....

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" Finding a second Earth is not a matter of if but when"

NASA Announces Discovery of 7 New Planets, 3 In ‘Habitable Zone’ | NBC News

: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIosTSBlFGQ

Published on 22 Feb 2017
NASA announced Wednesday the discovery of seven planets in the TRAPPIST solar
system, including three planets within the “habitable zone,” meaning they could contain water and be hosts to alien organisms.

NASA Discovers Four New Exoplanets That Could Possibly Sustain Life | Mach | NBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8pI-O4u9PE
Published on 22 Feb 2017
Astronomers have found a star system just 40 light-years away, containing seven
Earth-sized planets that may be able to sustain life.




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7 potentially habitable exoplanets discovered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhVXpd5XwW0

Published on 22 Feb 2017
The planets have been nicknamed "Earth's seven sisters."

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ESOcast 96: Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSFcQFoHXiU

Published on 22 Feb 2017

Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40
light-years away. Using ground and space telescopes, including ESO’s
Very Large Telescope, the planets were all detected as they passed in
front of their parent star, the ultracool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1.

Three of the planets lie in the habitable zone and could harbour oceans
of water on their surfaces, increasing the possibility that the star system
could play host to life. This system has both the largest number of Earth
-sized planets yet found and the largest number of worlds that could
support liquid water on their surfaces. This ESOcasts describes the
findings and shows a little of what they might mean.

The artist’s impressions in this video are based on the known physical
parameters for the planets and stars seen, and uses a vast database
of objects in the Universe.

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NASA & TRAPPIST-1: A Treasure Trove of Planets Found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKFaAS30X8

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TRAPPIST-1 Planets Tidally Locked to Star, Have Short Orbits | Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSM7UnUzDQM

Published on 22 Feb 2017
Most, if not all, of the 7 Earth-sized planets in the ultra cool dwarf star
system may only face one way towards their sun, similar to Earth’s moon.
Their orbits range from 1.94 days to about 20

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Signal may be from first 'exomoon'

By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website

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Artist's impression: Where there are exoplanets, there are probably exomoons

Astronomers have discovered an object that could be the first known moon
located beyond the Solar System.If genuine, the "exomoon" is likely to be
about the size and mass of Neptune, and circles a planet the size of Jupiter
but with 10 times the mass.The signal was detected by Nasa's Kepler Space
Telescope; astronomers now plan to carry out follow-up observations with
Hubble in October.

A paper about the candidate object is published on the Arxiv pre-print site.
To date, astronomers have discovered more than 3,000 exoplanets -
worlds orbiting stars other than the Sun.A hunt for exomoons - objects in
orbit around those distant planets - has proceeded in parallel. But so far,
these extrasolar satellites have lingered at the limits of detection with
current techniques.

Dr David Kipping, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University in
New York, says he has spent "most of his adult life" looking for exomoons.
For the time being, however, he urged caution, saying: "We would merely
describe it at this point as something consistent with a moon, but, who knows,
it could be something else."



read more...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40741545

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'Exomoon' discovery: Astronomers claim to make big find

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Published on 28 Jul 2017
A team of astronomers believe they have potentially discovered
an ‘exomoon,’ the first known moon beyond the solar system

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Oceans on the moon?

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Published on 31 Jul 2017
Researchers at Brown University examined mineral samples from the moon
and found volumes of water similar to earth’s basalt rock. They concluded
that the moon may contain large amounts of water beneath the surface. If
they’re correct, it means manned missions to the moon will be easier than
previously thought. RT America’s Trinity Chavez has the details of the
astonishing discovery.

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Interesting speculative vid......

What Ancient Human Civilizations Said About The Moon - 2017 The Moon is Not
What You Think it is

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Published on 14 Jul 2017
Ancient Human Civilizations across multiple continents around the world speak of
the time BEFORE the Moon arrived - and with it so did our ocean tides, seasons and
conditions prime for an abundance of life. However, there is an abundance of
evidence that significant information regarding our Moon and the Apollo landings
have been withheld from the masses. In fact, the Moon Express mining operation
raises questions of this as well.

Be sure to research what David Icke (https://www.youtube.com/user/davidicke)
has stated about the Moon, and although I do not necessarily know if he is right or
wrong on all of his assertions - I know enough that I do not know.

[Foxie Loxie]

What a good summary about the Moon! :highfive:

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Can Habitable Zones Help Us Find Another Earth? | Mach | NBC News

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Published on 31 Aug 2017
In this episode of 'Space is Awesome', host Summer Ash explores Habitable
Zones and what their search means for finding other Earth-like planets.

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Repeating Mysterious Radio Signals (FRBs) From Deep Space Detected

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Published on 30 Aug 2017
Scientists detect strange repeating radio burst on the other side of the cosmos
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have baffled scientists for the past decade. Until recently,
we've only seen a FRB repeat once, and now we've observed another. But what does
this latest discovery mean?

It seems like every time we attempt to take a step toward better understanding our
cosmos we are left with more questions than answers — a regular Bonini’s Paradox.
Just a few years ago we didn’t even know that the cosmic phenomena known as fast
radio bursts (FRB) — rare, bright, and inexplicable signals from beyond our galaxy —
existed. And until recently, only one of these FRBs had been recorded on more than
one occasion. However, last week, a team has recorded yet another repeating FRB.
Here is Full Story:http://www.cosmosnews.xyz/2017/08/vid...

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Astronomers Pick Up Mystery Radio Signals from Dwarf Galaxy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Mr9dU5vGs

Published on 2 Sep 2017
Scientists with the Breakthrough Listen initiative said they detected 15 repeating,
fast radio bursts coming from the same mysterious source they recorded in 2012.
In 2015, the same source became the first object to record a repeating radio burst.

The Aug. 26 discovery also comes from the only source whose location has been
positively confirmed in space, WJZ reported. The dwarf galaxy signal that was found
in is much smaller than the Milky Galaxy, with about half the number of stars in it.

“The possible implications are two folds,” Dr. Vishal Gajjar of Breakthrough Listen said.
“This detection at such a high frequency helps us scrutinize many of FRB 121102’s
origin models.” Researchers at Harvard said the signals’ power could be making it easier
for astronomers to find than others in the cosmos.

“Previously we thought there wasn’t much emission at high or low frequencies, but now
it looks like there is,” said Professor Avi Loeb at Harvard University. “It’s twice as high
as the typical frequency that was previously claimed for this repeater.”

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Fast Radio Burst 121102 Update For 09/02/17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_EJYM4utEM
Published on 2 Sep 2017
An update on repeating fast radio burst 121102 which is currently active and could
have implications on both SETI and deciphering just what causes FRBs.

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Mysterious signals from space: Are you worried?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOl4YwbYrsQ

Published on 5 Sep 2017..FOX NEWS....
Stephen Hawking's Breakthrough Listen project recently
picked up radio bursts from an unknown source; Kat Timpf
hits the street to gauge regular folks' concern

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Astronomers Discover A New Earth-Like Planet That Could Sustain Life | Mach | NBC News

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Published on 15 Nov 2017
A temperate Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from the
Solar System and astronomers are still trying to study its atmosphere, composition
and chemistry in more detail.

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This chart shows the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). This constellation is home
to the faint red dwarf star Ross 128, marked with a red circle, which is sometimes
known as Proxima Virginis as it is the closest star to Earth in the constellation. It
is orbited by an Earth-mass planet, Ross 128 b. This picture shows most of the
stars that can be seen with the naked eye on a dark and clear night. Ross 128
itself needs a small telescope to be visible. ESO, IAU and Sky & Telescope
read more...
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/planet-hunters-discover-earth-world-could-sustain-life-ncna820916

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New Earth DISCOVERED: Ross 128 b could host ALIEN life (or US!)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/879962/alien-life-planet-discovered-ross-128-b-nasa-exoplanets-red-dwarf

[Star Tsar]

May I interject CiderSommerset...


Space.com & European Soutern Observatory

Ross 128 B

Possible Earth-Like Planet Ross 128 B - How Far Away is It?

Published 15th November 2017

It depends on when you ask! The recently discovered planet is orbiting the red dwarf star Ross 128, 11 light-years away from our solar system in the Virgo constellation. But the star system is moving closer to Earth.

Read all about it here: https://www.space.com/38782-possibly-earth-like-alien-planet-ross-128b.html

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Fly Through & Zooming In On Ross 128

Published 15th November 2017

This zoom video sequence takes the viewer towards the sprawling constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). The first thing we encounter on our journey is the faint red dwarf star Ross 128, just 11 light-years from the Earth and the closest object in the constellation of Virgo. This star is orbited by the Earth-mass temperate planet Ross 128 b.

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ESOcast 137 Light: Temperate Planet Orbiting Quiet Red Dwarf

Published 15th November 2017

A temperate planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from Earth by a team using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument. The new world has the designation Ross 128 b and is now the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after Proxima b. It is also the closest planet to be discovered orbiting an inactive red dwarf star, which may increase the likelihood that this planet could potentially sustain life. Ross 128 b will be a prime target for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, which will be able to search for biomarkers in the planet's atmosphere. This short video explains the discovery and its significance.

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Nearby planet is 'excellent' target in search for life

By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website

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Artwork: Ross 128 b might be a target in the search for extra-terrestrial life
Astronomers have found a cool, Earth-sized planet that's relatively close to our Solar
System.The properties of this newly discovered planet - called Ross 128 b - make it a
prime target in the search for life elsewhere in the cosmos.

At just 11 light-years away, it's the second closest exoplanet of its kind to Earth.

But the closest one, known as Proxima b, looks to be less hospitable for life.

Found in 2016, it orbits the star Proxima Centauri, which is known to be a rather active
"red dwarf" star. This means that powerful eruptions periodically batter Proxima b with
harmful radiation.

The new planet, Ross 128 b, orbits a star that's not dissimilar to Proxima Centauri (it's
also a red dwarf), but is significantly less active. Where should we look for alien life?
Neighbouring star has Earth-sized planetCo-discoverer Nicola Astudillo-Defru from the
Geneva Observatory in Switzerland told BBC News: "Just because Proxima Centauri blasts
its planet with strong flares and high energy radiation, yes, I think Ross 128 is much more
comfortable for the development of life. "But we still need to know what the atmosphere
of Ross 128 b is like. Depending on its composition and the reflectivity of its clouds, the
exoplanet may be life friendly with liquid water as the Earth, or sterile like Venus."

read more..

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Artwork: The Extremely Large Telescope should be able to probe the atmospheres of exoplanets like Ross 128 b
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Artwork: The James Webb Space Telescope should launch in 2019
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41995572

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Boost in the hunt for alien life

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Published on 1 Dec 2017....Daily Mail
Oceans trapped beneath the icy surface of distant worlds at the edge of our solar
system may be able to sustain liquid water for far longer than previously suspected.
Distant objects known to exist beyond Neptune’s orbit are known to be too cold to
host liquid water at the surface, with temperatures dropping more than 350 degrees
below zero Fahrenheit But, there is evidence to suggest an interior liquid water layer
exists beneath the crust.

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Trump signs space policy directive to send Americans to Moon, Mars

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Published on 11 Dec 2017...CBS
The order signed by President Trump on Monday directs NASA to lead
further space exploration programs to the Moon and eventually Mars.
Watch the president's remarks
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President Donald Trump Signs Major NASA Initiative (Full) | NBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSXu4ysMc5M
Streamed live 2 hours ago...NBC.
President Donald Trump will sign a major space exploration initiative called “Space
Policy Directive 1.” The new program will empower NASA to “send American
astronauts back to the Moon, and eventually Mars,” according to a White House spokesman.

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New Policy Directs NASA to Return Astronauts to Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzKxUM_RJsE
Published on 11 Dec 2017
Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot and National Space Council Executive
Secretary Scott Pace comment on Space Policy Directive 1, signed Monday, Dec.
11, 2017, by President Trump at the White House.

[Star Tsar]

If I may interject...


SETI Institute

SETI Talks 2017 | Jeff Coughlin & Geert Barentsen | Kepler : The Era of Exoplanets Has Arrived

Published 11th December 2017

NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched in 2009 and measured the brightness of 200,000 stars at unprecedented precision for over four years, with the prime mission goal of detecting Earth-sized exoplanets. Now after another four, Kepler’s final planet catalog is complete --- over 4,000 planet candidates have been found, with 50 of them possibly rocky and capable of having liquid water. For the first time in human history, we can calculate how common planets the same size and temperature as Earth are, a key component to SETI’s goal of figuring out how common life may be in the universe. The K2 mission began three years ago, and uses the Kepler spacecraft to stare at many different parts of the sky for 80 days at a time. A broad portion of the Astronomical community chooses what targets to observe, resulting in a wide variety of science, including supernovae, galaxies, stars, and of course exoplanets. K2 has found over 300 confirmed exoplanets and an additional 500 candidates. Some of these are likely to be habitable, and many of them are prime targets to be observed by future missions, such as the James Webb space telescope. We'll discuss what we may learn about these worlds over the next few decades, and what future missions are being planned to find planets to which our descendants may one day travel.

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Interstellar asteroid checked for alien technology
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Artwork: Observations of 'Oumuamua noted its unusual elongated shape

A project searching for intelligent life in the cosmos is going to check the
first known interstellar asteroid for signs of alien technology.

The odd-shaped object was detected as it sped towards the Sun on 19 October.

Its properties suggested it originated around another star, making it the first
such body to be spotted in our cosmic neighbourhood. An initiative backed by
billionaire Yuri Milner will use a radio telescope to listen for signals from it.
The team's efforts will begin on Wednesday, with astronomers observing the
asteroid, which is currently speeding away from our Solar System, across
four different radio frequency bands.The first set of observations at the
Robert C Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia is due to last for 10 hours.

read more....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42329244

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Star system has record eight exoplanets

By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website
14 December 2017

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Artwork: the Kepler-90 system is the first to tie with our Solar System in number of planets

Nasa has found a distant star circled by eight planets, equal to
the complement in our own Solar System.It's the largest number
of worlds ever discovered in a planetary system outside our own.

The star known as Kepler-90, is just a bit hotter and larger than
the Sun; astronomers already knew of seven planets around it.
The newly discovered world is small enough to be rocky, according
to scientists."This makes Kepler-90 the first star to host as many
planets as our own Solar System," said Christopher Shallue, a
software engineer at Google, which contributed to the discovery.


Star's seven Earth-sized worlds set record

Engineers from Google used a type of artificial intelligence called
machine learning to find planets that were missed by previous searches.

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Kepler-90 and our Solar System compared

read more.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42356305

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Pentagon ran secret multi-million dollar UFO programme
3 hours ago

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The Pentagon has been running a secret multi-million dollar programme
to investigate Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), US media report.
Only a small number of officials were aware of the programme, which
began in 2007 and was reportedly closed in 2012.The New York Times
says documents from the operation describe strange speeding aircraft
and hovering objects.But scientists were doubtful, stressing that
unexplained happenings were not necessarily proof of alien life.
◾CIA releases 13m pages of declassified documents

The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme was the
brainchild of Harry Reid, a retired Democratic senator who was the
Senate majority leader at the time.He told the New York Times: "I'm not
embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going. I've done something
that no one has done before."

Mr Reid - former senator for Nevada, home to the mythologised "Area 51"
classified US Air Force base - later tweeted that the programme was a serious
effort to get to truth amid "plenty of evidence to support asking the questions".



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Twitter post by @SenatorReid: If anyone says they have the answers, they’re
fooling themselves. We don’t know the answers but we have plenty of evidence
to support asking the questions. This is about science and national security. If
America doesn’t take the lead in answering these questions, others will.

The programme is reported to have cost the Department of Defense more than
$20 million (£15m) before it was shut down in order to save costs.Although its
funding ended in 2012, officials have reportedly continued to investigate sightings
of unusual aerial phenomena and suspicious objects alongside their daily duties.

One former congressional staffer told Politico the programme may have been set
up to monitor the technological progress of rival foreign powers."Was this China
or Russia trying to do something or has some propulsion system we are not familiar
with?", they said.

Earlier this year, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released millions of pages
of declassified documents online.The records included UFO sightings and a collection
of reports on flying

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42379749

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Citizen science bags five-planet haul

By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website, Washington DC
12 January 2018

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Artwork: The findings could shed light on the process by
which planets form and then migrate within their systems

A discovery by citizen scientists has led to the confirmation
of a system of five planets orbiting a far-off star.

Furthermore, the planets' orbits are linked in a mathematical
relationship called a resonance chain, with a pattern that is
unique among the known planetary systems in our galaxy.
Studying the system could help unlock some mysteries
surrounding the formation of planetary systems.

read more..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42644531

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Hubble scores unique close-up view of distant galaxy

By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website

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Ancient galaxies usually appear as tiny red dots to powerful telescopes

The Hubble telescope has bagged an unprecedented close-up view of one of the
Universe's oldest known galaxies.Astronomers were lucky when the orbiting
observatory captured the image of a galaxy that existed just 500 million years after
the Big Bang.The image was stretched and amplified by the natural phenomenon of
gravitational lensing, unlocking unprecedented detail.Such objects usually appear
as tiny red spots to powerful telescopes.

Distance and age are linked in astronomy; because of the time taken for light to
traverse the vast expanse in-between, we see the galaxy as it was more than 13
billion years ago.The detail evident in the image will help scientists to test theories
of galaxy evolution.

"Pretty much every galaxy at that distance is an unresolved dot... it's kind of a
matter of luck to get a galaxy that's lensed in just the right way to stretch it out
and get that much detail - it's a pretty nice find," the study's lead author Brett
Salmon told BBC News.Dr Salmon, from the Space Telescope Science Institute
(STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, added: "By analysing the effects of gravitational
lensing on the image of this galaxy, we can determine its actual size and shape."
The findings were presented at the 231st American Astronomical Society meeting in
Washington DC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42692843

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'Oumuamua: 'space cigar's' tumble hints at violent past

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
3 hours ago

short vid on link..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43018706

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Artwork: The way 'Oumuamua tumbles suggests it was involved in a collision

The space interloper 'Oumuamua is spinning chaotically and will carry on doing
so for more than a billion years. That is the conclusion of new Belfast research
that has examined in detail the light bouncing off the cigar-shaped asteroid from
outside our Solar System. "At some point or another it's been in a collision," says
Dr Wes Fraser from Queen's University. His team's latest study is featured in
Sunday's Sky At Night episode on the BBC and published in Nature Astronomy.

It is yet another intriguing finding about this strange object that has fascinated
scientists since its discovery back in October. 'Oumuamua comes from a different star
system. Its path across the sky confirms it does not originate in our solar neighbourhood.

read more...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43018706

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Report: Trump administration looks into privatizing International Space Station

CBS News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB-KR5Xc5xc

Published on 11 Feb 2018
The Trump administration is considering a plan to cut off federal funding for the
International Space Station and turn over parts of it to private industry, according
to the Washington Post, which cites an internal NASA document. But the plan would
likely face strong opposition. CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood joins CBSN to discuss.

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More from the Kepler mission


Space.com

Kepler Space Telescope Discovers 95 More Alien Planets

Published 15th February 2018

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The exoplanet discoveries by NASA's Kepler space telescope keep rolling in.

Astronomers poring through data gathered during Kepler's current extended mission, known as K2, have spotted 95 more alien planets, a new study reports.

Read all about it here: https://www.space.com/39703-kepler-telescope-discovers-95-exoplanets-more.html

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Atacama's lessons about life on Mars

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
5 hours ago

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The Atacama has been in a hyperarid state for millions of years

Even in the driest places on Earth there is life eking out an existence, it seems.
Scientists have examined the soils in those parts of the Atacama desert that may
not see any rains for decades. Still, the team led from the Technical University of
Berlin, Germany, found evidence of microbes that have adapted to the extreme
conditions. These hardy organisms are of interest because they may serve as a
template for how life could survive on Mars.

"All the stresses you have in the Atacama, you have on Mars, too - just a little tick
more," TU Berlin's Dr Dirk Schulze-Makuch told BBC News. So, as well as super-aridity
that means even higher levels of ultraviolet radiation and soils that are loaded with
salts. Dr Schulze-Makuch's team sampled a range of sites in the South American desert
- from those places that get a regular wetting from fogs to those where precipitation of
any form is extremely rare

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The Atacama's similarities to Mars mean it is used as a location to film sci-fi movies
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Moon covered in water? New study suggests yes
Fox News

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Published on 27 Feb 2018
A new study suggests that water may not just be contained to the lunar poles
but it may be found throughout the surface. What does this mean for planet earth?

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Alien atmospheres recreated on Earth

By Mary Halton
Science reporter, BBC News
9 March 2018

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Super-Earths and mini-Neptunes have a radius between one to four times that of Earth

Researchers have recreated the chemistry of atmospheres on distant planets for the first
time in the lab, according to two new papers. They found that hazes, such as the
hydrocarbons that shroud Saturn's moon Titan, can be produced on a class of exoplanets
known as super-Earths and mini-Neptunes.


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43335368

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UK will lead European exoplanet mission

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent...20/3/18

A telescope to study the atmospheres of planets beyond our Solar System
will be launched by the European Space Agency in the late 2020s.
The mission, to be known as Ariel, was selected by the organisation's
Science Programme Committee on Tuesday. The venture will be led
scientifically from the UK by University College London astrophysicist
Giovanna Tinetti.

"In the next decade we will see many, many planets being discovered
- thousands, actually," she said.

read more...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43477352

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Ghostly galaxy may be missing dark matter

By Mary Halton
Science reporter, BBC News
28 March 2018


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Hubble image: The galaxy is so faint that other spiral galaxies can been seen through it

An unusually transparent galaxy about the size of the Milky Way is prompting new questions
for astrophysicists.The object, with the catchy moniker of NGC1052-DF2, appears to contain
no dark matter.If this turns out to be true, it may be the first galaxy of its kind - made up
only of ordinary matter. Currently, dark matter is thought to be essential to the fabric of the
Universe as we understand it. The study is published in Nature.

read more....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43543195

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TESS: NASA on the hunt for new planets beyond our solar system

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Published on 16 Apr 2018

Over 3700 exo planets have been discover of which 50 plus
are Earth sized in the Goldilocks zone not to hot or cold....

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Nasa planet-hunter set for launch

By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, Cape Canaveral
16/4/18

The US space agency is about to launch a telescope that should find
thousands of planets beyond our Solar System.The Tess mission will
go up on a Falcon rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida and survey
nearly the entire sky over the course of the next two years. It will
stare at stars, hoping to catch the dip in brightness as their faces
are traversed by orbiting worlds.

Tess will build a catalogue of nearby, bright stars and their planets
that other telescopes can then follow up.

read more...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43544205
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NASA’s New Satellite TESS Will Look For Undiscovered Alien Worlds | Mach | NBC News
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Published on 16 Apr 2018
TESS or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is scheduled to lift off from the
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday, April 16, at 6:32 p.m. EDT.
NASA’s hope its that it will help us finally find undiscovered worlds that could
harbor extraterrestrial life.
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Rolls-Royce and Boeing invest in UK space engine

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
12 April 2018


Reaction Engines Limited (REL), the UK company developing a revolutionary
aerospace engine, has announced investments from both Boeing and Rolls-Royce.

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Science Briefing for NASA's TESS Mission on SpaceX Falcon 9

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Published on 15 Apr 2018...( 54 mins seg )...
Mission scientists take part in a science news conference for the TESS mission
that SpaceX will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket for NASA.

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Astronomers name mountains found on Pluto’s moon

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Published on 16 Apr 2018
Science experts have some exciting news about the farthest expanse of the solar
system. The international astronomical union has announced official names for
mountains on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, RT America’s Trinity Chavez reports.

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20/4/18

Europe's Mars rover. Or rather,
a copy of it.

Short vid on link...read more....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43832868
Airbus engineer Abbie Hutty gives a tour of the ExoMars
rover test model.So, here it is.

This is what they call the Structural Thermal Model, or STM.
It is one of three rovers that will be built as part of the
European Space Agency's ExoMars 2020 mission to search
for life on the Red Planet. And, no, we're not sending all
three to the Red Planet.

read more....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43832868

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Gaia second data release

European Space Agency, ESA

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Published on 25 Apr 2018
The second data release of ESA’s Gaia mission has produced an extraordinary
catalogue of over one and a half billion stars in our galaxy. Based on observations
between July 2014 to May 2016, it includes the most accurate information yet on
the positions, brightness, distance, motion, colour and temperature of stars in the
Milky Way as well as information on asteroids and quasars.

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Gaia telescope's 'book of the heavens' takes shape

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
25 April 2018

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The Gaia observatory has released a second swathe of data as it assembles
the most precise map of the sky. The European Space Agency telescope
has now plotted the position and brightness of nearly 1.7 billion stars.
It also has information on the distance, motion and colour of 1.3 billion of
these objects.

Gaia's "book of the heavens" will not be complete until the 2020s, but when it
is the map will underpin astronomy for decades to come. It will be the reference
frame used to plan all observations by other telescopes. It will also be integral
to the operation of all spacecraft, which navigate by tracking stars.

But beyond that, Gaia promises a raft of new discoveries about the properties
and structure of our Milky Way Galaxy, its history and evolution into the future.
It will enable scientists to find new asteroids and planets; and to test physical
constants and theories. Gaia should even refine the techniques used to measure
distances across the wider Universe, and reduce the uncertainties we currently
have about the age of the cosmos.


read more....Short audio vid on BBC link below

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43900834

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'Ground-breaking' galaxy collision detected

By Mary Halton
Science reporter, BBC News
25 April 2018



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An artist's impression of the 14 galaxies detected

Scientists have detected a cosmic "pileup" of galaxies in the early Universe.
Imaged almost at the boundary of the observable Universe, the 14 unusually
bright objects are on a collision course, set to form one massive galaxy.
This will in turn serve as the core for a galaxy cluster, one of the most massive
objects in the Universe.

The catch? This all happened over 12 billion years ago.

Looking this far across the Universe is essentially looking back in time, as the
light has taken many billions of years to reach us.The galaxies would have been
in their observed configuration when the Universe was a mere 1.4 billion years old.

read more....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43841025

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Space Orbiter Reveals Stunning Images Of Martian Planet

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Published on 1 May 2018
The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) which is part of the ExoMars program reveals
its first color photo of Mars. The image shows an ice-coated rim of the Kovolev
Crater. More of these photos will likely be coming as the TGO continues its
search for methane gas. The project is led by The European Space Agency
with assistance from the Russian Federal Space Agency. RT’S America
Trinity Chavez has the report.


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Prof Stephen Hawking's multiverse finale

By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News
2/5/18
Prof Stephen Hawking's final research paper suggests that our Universe
may be one of many similar to our own.The theory resolves a cosmic
paradox of the late physicist's own making.It also points a way forward
for astronomers to find evidence of the existence of parallel universes.
The study was submitted to the Journal of High-Energy Physics 10 days
before Prof Hawking died.

In the 1980s, the Cambridge scientist, along with US physicist James
Hartle developed a new idea about the beginning of the Universe.
This resolved a difficulty with Einstein's theory that suggested that the
Universe began nearly 14 billion years ago but said nothing about how
it began.

Instead, the Hartle-Hawking idea used a different theory called quantum
mechanics to explain how the Universe arose from nothingness.The idea
tied up one loose end but created another - an infinite number some might
say. As physicists analysed the idea it emerged that it carried with it the
implication that the Big Bang would create not just one universe - but an
endless supply

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Artwork: The Big Bang may have created many universes

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Ancient Organics Discovered on Mars
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Published on 7 Jun 2018
The Curiosity rover has discovered ancient organic molecules on Mars, embedded
within sedimentary rocks that are billions of years old. News Release:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/na... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center/Dan Gallagher.Graphics from the NASA-TV broadcast of this discovery are
available at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12967

Music provided by Killer Tracks: "Crystalline" by Enrico Cacace & Manuel
Bandettini, "Based On True Events" by Eric Chevalier, "Mirrored Cubes" by Laurent
Dury, "Lost In The Sky" by Matthews Samar
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NASA has discovered ancient organics on the surface of Mars ...Daily Mail

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Published on 7 Jun 2018....Daily Mail...( 3 mins )...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered signatures of an environment on the red
plant that may once have been habitable. In two separate studies on data collected
by the Mars rover over the last few years, scientists have identified an abundant
source of organic matter in the ancient soil, and traced some of the planet’s
atmospheric methane to its roots. The findings could help to guide the search for
ancient microbial life and improve our understanding of seasonal processes on Mars.
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Mars has seasonal methane variations
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Published on 7 Jun 2018...Sci news...( 6 mins )...
NASA’s Curiosity rover detected seasonal methane releases on Mars using the
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. Water-rock chemistry might have
generated the methane, but scientists cannot rule out the possibility of biological origins.

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New Mars Science Results

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53kq635mpMs

Streamed live on 7 Jun 2018...( 58 mins )...
NASA discusses new science results from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.
The media and public are invited to ask questions.

Michelle Thaller, assistant director of science for communications, in
NASA's Planetary Science Division will host the chat. Participants include:
Paul Mahaffy, director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
Jen Eigenbrode, research scientist at Goddard
Chris Webster, senior research fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Ashwin Vasavada, Mars Science Laboratory project scientist, JPL

The public can send questions on social media by using #askNASA.
For information about NASA's Curiosity rover, visit:
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Space.com's Tariq Malik on NASA reporting it found the
building blocks of life on Mars and the private space race.

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Nasa: Building blocks of life on Mars found

Nasa says organic matter found at the bottom of a crater on the Red Planet
suggests there might have been life there once. Samples of the matter were
analysed by a team of scientists, including Prof Sanjeev Gupta from Imperial
College London. He told Today how significant the discovery
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JWST: Launch of Hubble's successor pushed back to 2021

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
27 June 2018

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Webb contains novel technologies that have never previously been flown in space

The successor to the Hubble observatory will not now launch until 30 March 2021 at the earliest.
The 29-month delay, from October this year, follows a review into the technical challenges currently
facing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).The date change and the extra work required pushes
the likely cost of the project to $9.66bn (£7.27bn). JWST will use a huge mirror and state-of-the-art
instruments to try to see the first stars to shine in the cosmos. It will have the power as well to resolve
the atmospheres of some of the new planets being discovered beyond our Solar System, and to analyse
their atmospheres for the potential for life.

The US space agency has expressed frustration at the latest setback. However, its science director,
Thomas Zurbuchen, argued that "Webb would be worth the wait". "By setting this new launch date, Nasa
agrees with the central findings of the Independent Review Board (IRB) that the development of the
telescope should move forward because of the exceptional potential that it has and the spectacular science
that will be returned when Webb is out there in space."
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Shall we use Kepler to try to find CS?


Space.com

NASA's Aging Planet Hunter Telescope Kepler Is Struggling To See Straight

Published 1st October 2018

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Space-Time has taken it's toll it would seem!

Read all about it here: https://www.space.com/41984-nasa-kepler-exoplanet-telescope-not-dead-yet.html