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Our biggest telescopes cannot resolve planets at the distances even of the nearest stars, so no direct confirmation is yet available. This Slate article has so
by icanhackit 11y ago
Our biggest telescopes cannot resolve planets at the distances even of the nearest stars, so no direct confirmation is yet available.
This Slate article has some fantastic images of exoplanets, though it's from 2012: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/bad_astronomy/2012/11/exoplanet_pictures_astronomers_have_photos_of_alien_planets.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/bad_astrono...
A list of directly imaged exoplanets here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exoplanets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...
50 years of progress.
- reedlaw 11y ago50 years of progress indeed. In addition, the biological sciences have almost completely traced a series of natural occurrences which lead from inanimate molecules to elementary living viruses. This statement reflects a certain naiveté about the complexity of living organisms. The Miller-Urey experiment may be what he's alluding to. But now their assumptions about the atmosphere have been disproven and there still hasn't been a major breakthrough in describing an evolutionary pathway from molecules to cells.
- dogma1138 11y agoIf any one wonders what are the techniques and how the actual "imaging" looks like CNRC has an awesome presentation[0] on the subject (no actual scientific knowledge required, the pictures are pretty (amazing) on their own). Whats even more amazing is that the images we can take of exoplanets now are not that far from the images we can take of Pluto and other post Neptunian object with terrestrial telescopes. [0] https://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/files/exep/marois-Tahoe-20120317.pdf https://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/files/exep/marois-Tahoe-20120317.p...