The ISEE team has spent the day exploring the desert surface of MOA-2010-BLG-328L b, a super earth orbiting a star by the same name. This MOA has an orbital period of 972 days which means its summer season is equal to a full year on earth. Because of its size a full day equals approximately 4.267 times a standard day on earth. Needless to say they are ready for this day to end. . #interstellar_exoplanet_ekistics #space #lego #classicspace #legoclassicspace #desertplanet #ekistics #exoplant #MOA-2010-BLG-328L #toy_photographers #joecowtoy #joecow3D #stereotoy #stereolego #yellow #spacemen #explorers #stuckinplastic #valleyoffirestatepark #toyoutsiders #spacethefinalfrontier #nasa #legospace #astronauts (at Valley of Fire State Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3yJtT5lW7J/?igshid=1on9455ndp4a1
Current number of confirmed exoplanets is 3,717 with another 4,496 candidate planets.
The new exoplanet hunting space satellite TESS is scheduled to launch on Monday. The new NASA satellite will replace the dying Kepler/K2 satellite telescope which revolutionized hunting and understanding exoplanets. TESS may bring about another exoplanet discovery revolution. According to the NASA exoplanet website the current total number of 3717 confirmed exoplanets with a majority of these confimations as well as the 4,496 candidate planets being discovered by the Kepler/K2 mission.
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"Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space"
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Day 23: Feb 23 Seven planets, spied through the star-strewn stretches of space. Possibilities and newness burst through the top: What could live there? What are they like (the planets?) Will this change anything from the planets spotted before? And most importantly: What will we do? Is now the time — for us as humans — to search wonderingly and curiously for planet with cognitive life? [60] A/N:…
Above: This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet discovered by the Kepler space telescope. The relation between the planetary mass and radius will determine whether this is an Earth-like planet. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
New theoretical models aid the search for Earth-like planets
Researchers from Bern have developed a method to simplify the search for Earth-like planets: By using new theoretical models they rule out the possibility of Earth-like conditions, and therefore life, on certain planets outside our solar system – and limit their search by doing so.
Currently extensive observational programmes are being developed all over the world, with the aim to detect planets outside our solar system that are able to accommodate life – a sheer impossible task. "The question whether so-called exoplanets are habitable or not is difficult to answer, as we do not know all the necessary conditions a planet has to fulfil in order to be habitable", said Yann Alibert of the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern.
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Two studies of an Earth-sized planet circling the sun-like star Kepler-78 show it has Earth-like amounts of iron and rock, the first world of its size that scientists have been able to calculate both density and diameter
But don't pack your bags yet. The planet, known as Kepler-78b, circles sizzlingly close to its parent star, far from an Earth-like water-friendly orbit, a condition that is believed to be necessary for life.
The Contortionist, they're one of my absolute favorite bands. They did not "save my life" but they changed it so much. I must've found you guys, 2-3 years ago? I had downloaded your Shapeshifter EP and Exoplanet. At first, I didn't really give much thought, this was back when the only 'death' band I really listened to was Job For A Cowboy, but I remember the night I got hooked, it was a blistering cold winter night and I was working outside, I had Sleep Mode playing, the pig squeals and those perfect clean vocals mixed into one song were absolutely perfect. Sad to say, the clean screamed vocals left with that vocalist, but Contort's further work only got better. After that day I started listening to Exoplanet, Oscillator was my favorite. The endless instrumental outro was cosmic. I fell in love with this album. And when I finally listened to the entirety of the ending trio of songs, I knew this band was going to be a staple. I remember, my Senior year was absolutely miserable, there was so much stress, there was no way I was going to graduate needing 10+ credits to graduate and a few months left at the time, I used to listen to Exoplanet straight-through during my study halls or any chance I had, I'd just lay my head down on my desk and concentrate on the music and relax. I literally felt completely free, like I was lifted my something celestial by the end of the album, I'd mention to my friends how I felt like I just took hallucinogens after listening to this album, not as I felt high, I just felt.. free. Which is important to me because I always feel restrained, always being watched, insecure and stressed.
Your music helped me graduate and I thank you so much for that.
There's so much more I could say about the music you wrote, and the stuff developed before you were in the band, and what was produced before, (all amazing), but that's not the point of this.
It really sucks to see you go but you've been gifted with more important things and you can't just go rock out anymore, you're an adult and going to be a parent. Congratulations, Jon, and the rest of The Contortionist, you changed my life, opened my mind and made things so much easier for me.
