Astronomers discover a planet where even your mom would be hot

So what, it makes you go blind?

IgG4: The Kepler finds are really cool, but because of the way the data is collected and distributed it favors finding the planets that have very short (close to the star) orbital periods. They are probably finding longer orbits that are farther out and therefore more similar to earth, but it takes years to confirm this data. When they start announcing those it's going to be sweet.

Tru dat, but that's okay because it just builds up an irrefutable stack of evidence of the widespread presence of rocky planets. That leads to rockies further out, which leads to the Swedish Bikini Team on a tropical island planet. :)

Pincy, that's awesome, dude!

"making it hot enough to have pools of molten iron on its surface!"

Maybe it is hot enough, but I'd bet there's no iron on its surface.

"Oh Phil, the luminosity dropped by like ten thousandths of a percent."

IgG4: The Kepler finds are really cool, but because of the way the data is collected and distributed it favors finding the planets that have very short (close to the star) orbital periods. They are probably finding longer orbits that are farther out and therefore more similar to earth, but it takes years to confirm this data. When they start announcing those it's going to be sweet.

I wish the whole planet would pay more attention to science and technology. That is our future. Science is the answer!

I hear it's called Crematoria.

Blah blah blah blah new exoplanet blah blah blah.

Until we find one that is interesting, who cares? We've found a bajillion of these things and not one of them is "Earth-like", unless you simply mean "a rock about our size". If it is hot enough to have freaking molten iron on its surface, it is not a "superEarth" unless National Geographic has been holding on on the "Molten Iron Lakes of the Congo" documentary.

ArcadianRefugee: Blah blah blah blah new exoplanet blah blah blah.

Until we find one that is interesting, who cares? We've found a bajillion of these things and not one of them is "Earth-like", unless you simply mean "a rock about our size". If it is hot enough to have freaking molten iron on its surface, it is not a "superEarth" unless National Geographic has been holding on on the "Molten Iron Lakes of the Congo" documentary.

Giordano Bruno included extrasolar planets in his pantheistic worldview that got him burned at the stake 411 years ago, and you're bored already?

ArcadianRefugee: Blah blah blah blah new exoplanet blah blah blah.

Until we find one that is interesting, who cares? We've found a bajillion of these things and not one of them is "Earth-like", unless you simply mean "a rock about our size". If it is hot enough to have freaking molten iron on its surface, it is not a "superEarth" unless National Geographic has been holding on on the "Molten Iron Lakes of the Congo" documentary.

Actually a number of the planets Kepler has turned up might very well be earthlike in all of the traditional senses. About the same size, about the same gravity,and potentially about the same temperature. Until we get bigger and badder telescopes though we won't be about to tell much more than that though. But one of the goals of missions like Kepler is to find targets for those next generation telescopes to learn more about.

ronin7: ArcadianRefugee: Blah blah blah blah new exoplanet blah blah blah.

Until we find one that is interesting, who cares? We've found a bajillion of these things and not one of them is "Earth-like", unless you simply mean "a rock about our size". If it is hot enough to have freaking molten iron on its surface, it is not a "superEarth" unless National Geographic has been holding on on the "Molten Iron Lakes of the Congo" documentary.

Actually a number of the planets Kepler has turned up might very well be earthlike in all of the traditional senses. About the same size, about the same gravity,and potentially about the same temperature. Until we get bigger and badder telescopes though we won't be about to tell much more than that though. But one of the goals of missions like Kepler is to find targets for those next generation telescopes to learn more about.


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