Astronomy / Space EYES on EXOPLANETS

[CareTaker]

I found this page from NASA. Shows all currently found and confirmed exoplanets near us in 3D. (All 884 of them, at the time of this post.)

Link:
http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/exoplanets/index.html

Very nice way to discover new planets.

And here is a list of all the planets:
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/newworldsatlas

 

[JeffRyan]

I have to be so so so lucky. I was studying astrophysics when the first exoplanets were discovered. In the same period we had shoemaker-levy and halley-bopp and the internet and hubble were really coming into their own. So for me the discovery of exoplanets has a special place in my heart.

 

[CareTaker]

Print screen with the Earth in the visual field:

 

[CareTaker]

Print screen with the WASP-80 b in the visual field.
The last one to be confirmed.

 

[CareTaker]

I have to be so so so lucky. I was studying astrophysics when the first exoplanets were discovered. In the same period we had shoemaker-levy and halley-bopp and the internet and hubble were really coming into their own. So for me the discovery of exoplanets has a special place in my heart.

When I studied astronomy, professor taught that planets around other stars can not be detected and will not be noticed for a long time.

 

[Cody]

An interesting article on 'rogue' exo-planets here.

 

[Bounder]

An interesting article on 'rogue' exo-planets here.

I was about to post about this from another source, but fascinating isn't it? I'd previously thought all rogues were orphans.

Some folks hypothesise that lone planets may outnumber stellar-bound ones! I'm betting plenty will be discovered once the JWT's launched...

Edit: http://phys.org/news/2013-08-free-floating-planets-born-free.html

"...200 billion in our galaxy.." !!

 

[JeffRyan]

When I studied astronomy, professor taught that planets around other stars can not be detected and will not be noticed for a long time.

Pre 94-98 then...

 

[Cody]

Yeah, billions of them - a transient rogue planet would make for an excellent mis-jump adventure.

 

[CareTaker]

Pre 94-98 then...

98. My professor was quickly proven wrong.

 

[Perseus]

Yeah, billions of them - a transient rogue planet would make for an excellent mis-jump adventure.

This Miss Jump . . . when is she having her next adventure?

I misunderstood the title; I thought eyes had been detected on one of the exoplanets. Looking back at us.

 

[Nagual]

I misunderstood the title; I thought eyes had been detected on one of the exoplanets. Looking back at us.

You were not the only one..

 

[Cody]

This Miss Jump . . . when is she having her next adventure?

Miss Jump and the Transient Rogue - coming to a dodgy book-seller near you soon!

 

[Perseus]

Miss Jump and the Transient Rogue - coming to a dodgy book-seller near you soon!

Is it being funded by KS, Cody? I'm prepared to fully back this excellent project!

 

[Cody]

<chortles> It would almost be worth hoaxing KS with it!

 

[Bounder]

On a related note, from PhysOrg:

Silence in the sky—but why?

And as noted earlier:

Dr Sandberg says: 'In the early 1990s we thought that perhaps there weren't many planets out there, but now we know that the universe is teeming with planets. We have more planets than we would ever have expected.'

^unless you'd played FE2 of course...