Scientists find 'habitable' Tau Ceti planet.

Thanks for the 5 stars:)


Last Edited by Lekker on 12/19/2012 04:47 AM

visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.

How scary is that?

Why would a star be scary? Lots of stars are visible to the naked eye.

They are not talking about the same thing, aren't they?

Evidence for Multiple Planets in the Habitable Zone of Gliese 667C

[link to arxiv.org]

No probs, thanks for the thread!

This find could turn out to be the missing link we have been searching for all these years!

"The world is one of five thought to be circling Tau Ceti, a star just 12 light years away"

No, it's not in our solar system.

You again.

If DR Astro is here then I'm very sure this is something
Big!

Why?

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Melbourne: Scientists using an intra-galactic speed gun have detected five new planets, relatively close to Earth, and one of them is orbiting a star's habitable zone, where conditions are suitable for life.

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"This discovery is in keeping with our emerging view that virtually every star has planets, and that the galaxy must have many such potentially habitable Earth-sized planets," says Steve Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz.

"We are now beginning to understand that nature seems to overwhelmingly prefer systems that have multiple planets with orbits of less than 100 days. This is quite unlike our own solar system, where there is nothing with an orbit inside that of Mercury. So our solar system is, in some sense, a bit of a freak and not the most typical kind of system that Nature cooks up."


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I dont think this requires a reply:)
Nameste

And yet...they STILL cant see nibiru.

Maybe they should eat some dogmeat.

Tau Ceti a near neighbor, at 12 light years away, it has the same spectral classification as our sun. Previously, the nearest planet believed to be capable of supporting life - found just last month - was 42 light years away.

They are "coming" closer each and every fucking moment

tomorrow they will come up with a planet that is 1 LY away and so on ....

Oh, I see. You think I'm a government agent who's trying to hide the truth, so you automatically assume that whatever I debunk must be true. I love how it's always the smarmy ones who use that "nameste" crap. I'm not lying, and I'm not trying to hide the truth. In fact, I'm always honest even if it's not to my benefit.
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Hey dr.asstro, go away with your shit, this is not a thread about you and your fucking ego!

Saying that the thread must be "big" because I posted in it kinda makes it about me, considering it was the OP that said that I think I have the right to address the comment.

To get back on topic for a moment.... (With all respect for our esteemed Dr. Astro.)

IT being a habitable planet doesn't make it Nibiru. It SEEMS habitable just because it orbits at a specific distance, but that's no guarantee. It could be a small gas giant, or barren for any number of reasons. It's neat and maybe one day in the future we'll be able to send something there and see if it has life (Or is suitable for us colonizing it or something) but that is decades if not centuries away.

Absolutely right, plus it's in a solar system a dozen light years away, not in our solar system. It's the star that can be seen by naked eye, not the planet.

If it is visible with the naked eye, why did it take so long to find?

The closest is Alpha Centauri which is 4 light years away.

But that is a double or binary system.

it maybe less likely that those systems have life.


Other stars farther away are too weak, brown and red dwarfs.


But Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani are 10 or so light years away and they are systems very similar to ours.

The stars are about the same size and they are not binary.

Both of these close systems have Planets.

And now we know one of them has a planet in the habitable zone.

We dont know enough about Epsilon Eridani, but many suspect that it has habitable planets too.

Like Astromut said, the planet's not visible (No planet is, because they're too small and way too dim.) We find these by measuring the tug the planet has on it's star as it orbits. We're just getting better at this, and are launching satalites to measure more accurately how the stars are affected.

TY.