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#1 2006-10-13 08:29:12
- Palomar
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Re: 16 Candidate Stars (ES Planets)
What a photo; zillions of stars. 
This crowded star field towards the center of our Milky Way Galaxy turns out to be a great place to search for planets beyond our solar system. In fact, repeatedly imaging about 180,000 stars in the field over a one week period...
In the end, SWEEPS astronomers found 16 candidate stars (green circles identify 11 in this cropped picture) that are likely closely orbited by large Jupiter-sized planets with periods of a few days or less.
Why so many super-Jupiters out there, seemingly? Is our diversely beautiful Solar System an anomaly? We've pondered that before and I'm wondering again.
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#2 2006-10-14 12:16:21
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#3 2006-10-17 20:04:31
- flashgordon
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Re: 16 Candidate Stars (ES Planets)
sixteen out of such a small star field is pretty good I must admit, but I would think the seti searches done so far must indicate a maximum of e.t's.
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#4 2022-04-30 05:35:59
- Mars_B4_Moon
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Re: 16 Candidate Stars (ES Planets)
Blasting out Earth’s location with the hope of reaching aliens is a controversial idea – two teams of scientists are doing it anyway
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