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Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by dekung(m): 11:06am On Dec 06, 2011
— NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the discovery of its first alien world in its host star's habitable zone — that just-right range of distances that could allow liquid water to exist — and found more than 1,000 new explanet candidates, researchers announced today (Dec. 5).
The new finds bring the Kepler space telescope's total haul to 2,326 potential planets in its first 16 months of operation.These discoveries, if confirmed, would quadruple the current tally of worlds known to exist beyond our solar system, which recently topped 700.
The potentially habitable alien world, a first for Kepler, orbits a star very much like our own sun. The discovery brings scientists one step closer to finding a planet like our own — one which could conceivably harbor life, scientists said.
"We're getting closer and closer to discovering the so-called 'Goldilocks planet,'" Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., said during a press conference today. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
The newfound planet in the habitable zone is called Kepler-22b. It is located about 600 light-years away, orbiting a sun-like star.
Kepler-22b's radius is 2.4 times that of Earth, and the two planets have roughly similar temperatures. If the greenhouse effect operates there similarly to how it does on Earth, the average surface temperature on Kepler-22b would be 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius).
Hunting down alien planets
The $600 million Kepler observatory launched in March 2009 to hunt for Earth-size alien planets in the habitable zone of their parent stars, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, might be able to exist.
Kepler detects alien planets using what's called the "transit method." It searches for tiny, telltale dips in a star's brightness caused when a planet transits — or crosses in front of — the star from Earth's perspective, blocking a fraction of the star's light.
The finds graduate from "candidates" to full-fledged planets after follow-up observations confirm that they're not false alarms. This process, which is usually done with large, ground-based telescopes, can take about a year.
The Kepler team released data from its first 13 months of operation back in February, announcing that the instrument had detected 1,235 planet candidates, including 54 in the habitable zone and 68 that are roughly Earth-size.
Of the total 2,326 candidate planets that Kepler has found to date, 207 are approximately Earth-size. More of them, 680, are a bit larger than our planet, falling into the "super-Earth" category. The total number of candidate planets in the habitable zones of their stars is now 48.
To date, just over two dozen of these potential exoplanets have been confirmed, but Kepler scientists have estimated that at least 80 percent of the instrument's discoveries should end up being the real deal.
More discoveries to come
The newfound 1,094 planet candidates are the fruit of Kepler's labors during its first 16 months of science work, from May 2009 to September 2010. And they won't be the last of the prolific instrument's discoveries.
"This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth's twin," Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.
Mission scientists still need to analyze data from the last two years and on into the future. Kepler will be making observations for a while yet to come; its nominal mission is set to end in November 2012, but the Kepler team is preparing a proposal to extend the instrument's operations for another year or more.
Kepler's finds should only get more exciting as time goes on, researchers say.
"We're pushing down to smaller planets and longer orbital periods," said Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead at Ames.
To flag a potential planet, the instrument generally needs to witness three transits. Planets that make three transits in just a few months must be pretty close to their parent stars; as a result, many of the alien worlds Kepler spotted early on have been blisteringly hot places that aren't great candidates for harboring life as we know it.
Given more time, however, a wealth of more distantly orbiting — and perhaps more Earth-like — exoplanets should open up to Kepler. If intelligent aliens were studying our solar system with their own version of Kepler, after all, it would take them three years to detect our home planet.
"We are getting very close," Batalha said. "We are homing in on the truly Earth-size, habitable planets."

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-telescope-confirms-alien-planet-habitable-zone-162005358.html
While some people are exploring new worlds we are busy building big churches.
O ma se oo!
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by Nobody: 11:41am On Dec 06, 2011
^^^ science fiction.
Until they (scientist) inform ''we'' the gullible ones of their discovery of ''heaven'',its all bullcrap and energy expanded in futility.
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by Emmyk(m): 11:45am On Dec 06, 2011
Crap, whatever stop the spaceships coming to Earth November? Total Imagination!
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by drstan(m): 11:48am On Dec 06, 2011
Watin concern church wit research, did ur FG give them any money, or is it d money they hav been savin 4 d house of God they wil use, u beta tel dat to ur FG,
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by DeepSight(m): 12:07pm On Dec 06, 2011
I really hope we do not need to have a potential armageedon in the form of a doomsday meteor or comet before people are able to see the far-sighted and deep value in this research.

One day, humanity may find it necessary to relocate from the earth or expand onto other planets. There could be many causes of this. Aside from potentially cataclysmic cosmic events, such could become necessary in the far future on account of over-population, scarcity of resources, climate change, and many other conceivable scenarios.
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by dekung(m): 12:28pm On Dec 06, 2011
Thank you Deepsight. The sad part for me is that those who should be the champion of everything that is good are busy amassing serious wealth but rather than put this to good use for humanity, they are busy building houses, and churches that can accommodate tens of thousands of people. What value does this add to our GDP. Japan was hit by a deadly Tsunami a few months ago, devastating the county's economy but rather than sit down hoping some God from somewhere who will come and bail them out, they stood up to the challenge. Nigeria entered the guiness book of world record, not because we performed any feat of engineering but because we built the biggest church. Factories in the whole of Lagos are being taken over by churches. Countries around the world are building economies we are building churches. If government officials are depraved, thieving kleptomaniacs, good for them! They are living up to expectation because in every country of the world, corruption lurks in every corner of the government establishments. religious people on the other hand are supposed to be examples of everything that is good, but what do we see, people who are only bothered about their pockets and how to milk the congregation dry.
Listen people, if you will wait for the government to make things better, you will wait several life times over. Things will be better when we change our orientation, especially as it relates to religion. We should ask questions from this 'Men of God'. What will be the value of the big church to anyone, how will it impact on the economy apart from the expectations from tithes and offerings? how many people will be employed? how will it impact on human capital development? if this questions are asked, am sure the size of these auditoriums will reduce, financial burdens placed on members will be lessened and the overall wastage on the part of the men will be curtailed.
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by mazaje(m): 12:51pm On Dec 06, 2011
If alien life is found on another distant planet(its a very big possibility) i wonder what these deluded goons will say again. . .Was Jesus sent to die for their sins and sacrificed or will Mohammed also be their last prophet?. . . .
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by dekung(m): 2:04pm On Dec 06, 2011
[Crown Prince]^^^ science fiction.
Until they (scientist) inform ''we'' the gullible ones of their discovery of ''heaven'',its all bullcrap and energy expanded in futility.[quote][/quote]

They may not be able to discover heaven because the place does not exist in LIFE. We are told you have to die to get there! But the truth may be that the place probably does not exist. The difference between these new planetary discoveries and heaven is that : if you live long enough you will probably know the truth about these new planets but on the other hand no matter how long you live, you can never know the truth about heaven, you only imagine it while awake and dream about it while you are asleep. Like I said, you need to be dead before you can know the truth about heaven
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by theseeker2: 2:11pm On Dec 06, 2011
I remember a quote by jodie foster in the movie Contact(the best sci-fi movie ever), 'if we are alone in the universe, it would be an awful waste of space'
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by dekung(m): 2:31pm On Dec 06, 2011
Interesting how people believe, even willing to die for, stories from a veeeeeery distant past that sounded more like fairy tales and yet find it difficult to believe things that are happening in their own life time. People can believe Elijah was taken up by chariots of fire but they cannot believe that a space craft has discovered another planet. They probably would believe if it aligned with a prediction in the bible.
Just my thots!
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by mazaje(m): 3:19pm On Dec 06, 2011
dekung:

Interesting how people believe, even willing to die for, stories from a veeeeeery distant past that sounded more like fairy tales and yet find it difficult to believe things that are happening in their own life time. People can believe Elijah was taken up by chariots of fire but they cannot believe that a space craft has discovered another planet. They probably would believe if it aligned with a prediction in the bible.
Just my thots!

Great thoughts nonetheless. . .They will easily believe that Mohammed divided the moon into two halves some 1400 years ago or that Jonah lived inside a fish for 3 days because it was written in mythical books they have been indoctrinated to believe in since childhood. . . .They will never accept the fact that there are planets like ours that harbor life. . .My believe is that in the near future(100-200) years from now, space technology will improve greatly and planets that harbor life will be discovered. . . .When the time comes I wonder what the story will be. . . .
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by theseeker2: 3:25pm On Dec 06, 2011
mazaje:

Great thoughts nonetheless. . .They will easily believe that Mohammed divided the moon into two halves some 1400 years ago or that Jonah lived inside a fish for 3 days because it was written in mythical books they have been indoctrinated to believe in since childhood. . . .They will never accept the fact that there are planets like ours that harbor life. . .My believe is that in the near future(100-200) years from now, space technology will improve greatly and planets that harbor life will be discovered. . . .When the time comes I wonder what the story will be. . . .

You will be shocked when yo find out that there muslims and xtian aliens on those planets and maybe some atheists for comic relief
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by mazaje(m): 5:33pm On Dec 06, 2011
^^
Its also possible. . . grin
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by thehomer: 11:48am On Dec 23, 2011
dekung:

— NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the discovery of its first alien world in its host star's habitable zone — that just-right range of distances that could allow liquid water to exist — and found more than 1,000 new explanet candidates, researchers announced today (Dec. 5).
The new finds bring the Kepler space telescope's total haul to 2,326 potential planets in its first 16 months of operation.These discoveries, if confirmed, would quadruple the current tally of worlds known to exist beyond our solar system, which recently topped 700.
The potentially habitable alien world, a first for Kepler, orbits a star very much like our own sun. The discovery brings scientists one step closer to finding a planet like our own — one which could conceivably harbor life, scientists said.
"We're getting closer and closer to discovering the so-called 'Goldilocks planet,'" Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., said during a press conference today. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
The newfound planet in the habitable zone is called Kepler-22b. It is located about 600 light-years away, orbiting a sun-like star.
Kepler-22b's radius is 2.4 times that of Earth, and the two planets have roughly similar temperatures. If the greenhouse effect operates there similarly to how it does on Earth, the average surface temperature on Kepler-22b would be 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius).
Hunting down alien planets
The $600 million Kepler observatory launched in March 2009 to hunt for Earth-size alien planets in the habitable zone of their parent stars, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, might be able to exist.
Kepler detects alien planets using what's called the "transit method." It searches for tiny, telltale dips in a star's brightness caused when a planet transits — or crosses in front of — the star from Earth's perspective, blocking a fraction of the star's light.
The finds graduate from "candidates" to full-fledged planets after follow-up observations confirm that they're not false alarms. This process, which is usually done with large, ground-based telescopes, can take about a year.
The Kepler team released data from its first 13 months of operation back in February, announcing that the instrument had detected 1,235 planet candidates, including 54 in the habitable zone and 68 that are roughly Earth-size.
Of the total 2,326 candidate planets that Kepler has found to date, 207 are approximately Earth-size. More of them, 680, are a bit larger than our planet, falling into the "super-Earth" category. The total number of candidate planets in the habitable zones of their stars is now 48.
To date, just over two dozen of these potential exoplanets have been confirmed, but Kepler scientists have estimated that at least 80 percent of the instrument's discoveries should end up being the real deal.
More discoveries to come
The newfound 1,094 planet candidates are the fruit of Kepler's labors during its first 16 months of science work, from May 2009 to September 2010. And they won't be the last of the prolific instrument's discoveries.
"This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth's twin," Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.
Mission scientists still need to analyze data from the last two years and on into the future. Kepler will be making observations for a while yet to come; its nominal mission is set to end in November 2012, but the Kepler team is preparing a proposal to extend the instrument's operations for another year or more.
Kepler's finds should only get more exciting as time goes on, researchers say.
"We're pushing down to smaller planets and longer orbital periods," said Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead at Ames.
To flag a potential planet, the instrument generally needs to witness three transits. Planets that make three transits in just a few months must be pretty close to their parent stars; as a result, many of the alien worlds Kepler spotted early on have been blisteringly hot places that aren't great candidates for harboring life as we know it.
Given more time, however, a wealth of more distantly orbiting — and perhaps more Earth-like — exoplanets should open up to Kepler. If intelligent aliens were studying our solar system with their own version of Kepler, after all, it would take them three years to detect our home planet.
"We are getting very close," Batalha said. "We are homing in on the truly Earth-size, habitable planets."

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-telescope-confirms-alien-planet-habitable-zone-162005358.html
While some people are exploring new worlds we are busy building big churches.
O ma se oo!

To put the 600 light years in perspective, if the Voyager probe were headed in that direction going at an assumed rate of traversing 1 light year in 14,000 years, it would take about 8.4 million years to get to that vicinity.
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by oloriooko(m): 11:22pm On Dec 23, 2011
@ mazaje
Great thoughts nonetheless. . .They will easily believe that Mohammed divided the moon into two halves some 1400 years ago or that Jonah lived inside a fish for 3 days because it was written in mythical books they have been indoctrinated to believe in since childhood. . . .They will never accept the fact that there are planets like ours that harbor life. . .My believe is that in the near future(100-200) years from now, space technology will improve greatly and planets that harbor life will be discovered. . . .When the time comes I wonder what the story will be. . . .

you are so hunted by your conscience that you cannot but relate every thing around you to the bible, bros your salvation is nearer than ever!
if there are planets that harbor life, then the gospel must be preached to them that is if they have not received it already!
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by Nobody: 2:11am On Dec 24, 2011
oloriooko:

@ mazaje
you are so hunted by your conscience that you cannot but relate every thing around you to the bible, bros your salvation is nearer than ever!
if there are planets that harbor life, then the gospel must be preached to them that is if they have not received it already!

lmao!!! You are just silly!! How do you intend to "preach the gospel" to lifeforms on a planet 600 light years away. Magic?
Besides, did jesus tell you that there are humans on that planet or is the gospel meant for every lifeform. 

You ignore the fact that if not for science and curiosity,most "educated" humans would still believe that the earth is the center of the universe and that the universe is the milky way. Anyway, NASA is probably lying, the bible says the stars are fixed in the firmament and they will fall into the Oceans when the giant trumpets sound and the seven headed dragon does a jig.
Your ridiculous anthropocentric christians beliefs don't take into account that "Life" can take many forms and doesn't have to conform to your myopic views.

You probably won't have to worry about preaching the gospel over there though. Maybe Jesus teleported there after he floated out of the earth. Come to think of it, he is probably spreading the goodnews throughout the cosmos and that's why he hasn't come back  yet. He is probably 28 million light years away in the Sombrero Galaxy, turning water into gin and tonic.
Re: Nasa Telescope Confirms Alien Planet In Habitable Zone by plaetton: 4:12pm On Dec 24, 2011
@martian:
These people are just too incredulous. The catholic church already has plans to convert aliens to christianity if and when we make official first contact with them.

Just read this.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5065245&page=1

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