Kepler may be dead but its data keeps on giving, thanks to AI: Two alien worlds found in archives Machine-learning algorithms have been used to uncover two previously unseen exoplanets in the archive of data amassed by NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope. Launched in 2009, Kepler was sent to survey the dark reaches of the Milky Way. Its job was to hunt for alien worlds by scrutinizing the light emitted by faraway stars. …
>My intern is, err, not doing anything so cool.
Well depending on whether your intern is male or female, either give them a kick up the backside or a motivational pat on the back, by showing them the UT article https://news.utexas.edu/2019/03/26/two-new-planets-discovered-using-artificial-intelligence/
> Which nation or corporation will lay or has laid claim to these planets?
Too late. I have. And I've patented the process of laying claim to exoplanets, which is now available to licence for the small amount of only 5% of all profits you make from a claimed planet.
>And I've patented the process of laying claim to exoplanets, which is now available to licence for the small amount of only 5% of all profits you make from a claimed planet.
Shame it is highly likely both the patent and you will have expired many decades before any expedition gets anywhere near to touching down on an exoplanet...
"Disintegrating planets are one example, these planets have different shaped transits than 'typical' planets.
As are the making of planets too, methinks, true, and ready for Confessing to All Almighty Thinking Surrounding RusCOSMICQ Deliberations.
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Yes, but is that board a carpenters dream or something just a bit wider, longer and better polished. It seems to me that the *chair* is the subject that needs more coverage.
And yes, they could be in formation process as much as destruction process. You know darned well it sells better if they are disintegrating.
If Roscosmos were to get a bit more funding, its possible they could step out from simply being the 'bus company', but we all know that the oligarchy is far more about putting cash in their own pockets before doing things that make sense to the rest of the country.
"...the most useless industry/profession on planet earth"
...and yet, the technology and research investment into optics, stabilisation, image enhancement, machine learning techniques and probably many others are all benefiting from it. Sometimes, it's not the end research that produces the best results for humanity as a whole, but the technology and techniques developed along the way, things that may or may not have been done without the targetted research project. Sometimes it's just bringing people from different disciplines together who might not have otherwise met and combining their knowledge. War tends to accelerate technological advancement, but I'd rather we got it from "blue sky projects" than more war.
Granted, if we have found thousands of exo-planets you could infer that there are many more to find, given that the transit method only picks out systems where the the exo-planet passes in front of the star from our point of view.
BUT you don't know that for certain, we may have found them all already.
It's about time we stopped calling them exo-planets, surely? It sort of made sense when there were only a few of them. We don't call the stars in these systems exo-suns. We don't call the Andromeda Nebula an exo-galaxy.
Well, in that case, we'll need a new word for planets not of our Solar System. It's understood that "sun" refers specifically to Sol, "our star" if you will. When we refer to "stars" it's implied that we're talking about any other stars that aren't Sol, unless otherwise stated.
"BUT you don't know that for certain, we may have found them all already."
Although not impossible, the odds are strongly against that supposition. We've barely looked at are own galaxy to date, let alone the billions of other galaxies. Actually, scratch that billions, it's more like trillions since we got a look at a tiny bit of "dark" sky courtesy of the first Hubble Deep Field images.
I'll not bother quoting the full Douglas Adams "Space is big..." quote, we all know it now :-)
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