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NASA to Host News Conference on Discovery Beyond Our Solar System
- kalms 10y agoAny rumours as to what this is about? (Don't want to get ahead of myself..)
- wwarren 10y agoWell, according to the article, exoplanets.
- Raphmedia 10y agoMost likely new ways to analyse distant exoplanets.
- randomnumber314 10y agohttp://nasawatch.com/archives/2017/02/spitzer-discove.html http://nasawatch.com/archives/2017/02/spitzer-discove.html
- FeatureRush 10y agoInteresting that there is already Reddit AMA planned and mentioned in this official NASA communicate.
- c3534l 10y agoIt's not aliens.
- sheraz 10y agodownvoted for ruining the fun :-)
- lebanon_tn 10y agoThanks, this is what I needed to know.
- ethbro 10y agoBut aliens would make space great again!
- l0b0 10y agoTabby's Star? Would be wonderful if there was some sort of conclusion of that. Even if it's a completely reasonable natural phenomenon it looks like we'll learn something new.
- neom 10y agoIf it's not a dyson sphere i'm gonna be real pissed off.
- Gravityloss 10y agoHN expectations... ;)
- Houshalter 10y agoIt's not emitting infrared like expected from a Dyson sphere. It's also not completely blacked out its star. Maybe it's one under construction?
- geggam 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm :)
- adamcharnock 10y agoDistractedly misread that as NASA holding a press conference from deep space, regarding some sort of discovery.
- kombucha2 10y agoI did the exact thing....
- Dowwie 10y agohopefully, Neil DeGrasse Tyson translates for the public
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- autocorr 10y agoJudging by the the first individual in the press release, Michael Gillon of the University of Liege, this may have something to do with their discovery published last year in Nature [1] on terrestrial planets with moderate surface temperatures ("temperate") around low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. All very nearby at less than 12 parsecs to boot! This article was on the front page of HN last year, and was discussed quite a bit in astronomy circles, but I'm having a hard time remembering the details without re-reading the paper. [1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7602/full/nature17448.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7602/full/nature1...
- JohnJamesRambo 10y agoLess than a Kessel Run eh?
- sandworm101 10y agoYes and no. (snipped... long scifi rant about StarWars navigation that explains distance as a measurement of time and why linear distance between bodies is not relevant.)
- anigbrowl 10y agoThis better be something better than 'we got slightly bette at identifying planets like our own.' It's great that we're doing so but when they are teasing discoveries rather than simply announcing them it should be for some signficant qualitative difference from anything we've known before.
- ckozlowski 10y agoI think some of the teasing is that which we inflict on ourselves. NASA wants to keep people interested and excited about their mission of course. But press conferences like these are also to stir up interest in the greater scientific community. Announcements like these might be disappointing to us lay persons who are waiting for the "we found life!" headline, but they can generate huge excitement in astronomy circles.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoExoplanets, according to the article. Interesting but probably not world-shaking.
- andrewclunn 10y agoThat depends on the seismic activity of the exoplanet.
- Tloewald 10y agoIs this NASA trying to build up some buzz in hopes of avoiding massive defunding by our clown car administration?
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- pkituu 10y agoYou can visualize all confirmed exoplanets using NASA's Eyes on the Exoplanets software. http://eyes.nasa.gov/eyes-on-exoplanets.html http://eyes.nasa.gov/eyes-on-exoplanets.html Requires download and install. OS X and Windows only :( Disclaimer: I am a developer of this software for NASA.
- devindotcom 10y agoAlso available for After Dark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q0Q3NvUA9Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q0Q3NvUA9Y
- callinyouin 10y agoFirst off, thanks for creating this. I definitely appreciate that this was created as a native app instead of trying to do it as a web app (which, from personal experience with WebGL, I imagine would have had terrible performance). I doubt this is the best channel for bug reports, but I thought I'd mention the launcher does not work for me on Windows 7. I had to run explorer-win64.exe directly.
- bpodgursky 10y agoFWIW I've been working on a similar WebGL visualization for fun (http://uncharted.bpodgursky.com/ http://uncharted.bpodgursky.com/) obviously much more primitive than the NASA version. I've been pretty amazed by what WebGL can handle (obviously it's hopeless on mobile though).
- Cyphase 10y agoFrom a banner on https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ : On Feb. 24, NASA.gov will start streaming NASA TV in HTML 5 rather than Flash. Shame; perhaps they don't want to risk deployment issues during their big announcement. Good timing on the announcement otherwise; lots of people will see that.
- noobermin 10y agoThe link is there, but for the lazy: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public
- ethbro 10y ago"On Feb. 24, NASA.gov will start streaming NASA TV in HTML 5 rather than Flash. Users with Windows computers should use the Chrome or Firefox web browser for the best experience." checks date Damn it. :(
- FeatureRush 10y agoConference already started: 7 earth-sized planets orbiting 1 star, 3 of those planets in habitable zone.
- cgriswald 10y agoBrief summary: Seven earth-sized planets found around M-star (red dwarf) TRAPPIST-1 40 ly away, three in the habitable zone, all with some potential for liquid water. HN discussion w/ Nature article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707547 Paper on Nature (paywall?): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7642/full/nature21360.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7642/full/nature2... SIMBAD entry for TRAPPIST-1: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=trappist-1 http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=trappist-1 Edit: Added links.
- dmix 10y ago@NASA: "New record! We’ve found 7 Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone around a single star outside our solar system: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around/ https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-la... " https://twitter.com/NASA/status/834464283337560068 https://twitter.com/NASA/status/834464283337560068
- skc 10y agoYou would think NASA of all orgs would at least provide time-zone conversions for their news conference, or at the very least add a countdown timer to their site.
- russellbeattie 10y agoThere needs to be a new unit that describes "a speed equal to the fastest humans have been able to travel in space" instead of "light years". Let's call it an "Apollo", since that record is held by the Apollo missions to the moon at 11,080 m/s. Speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. So humans can travel at ~0.0000367 x light speed, or 349,418,880,000 m/year. So instead of saying 40 light years, we'd say 27,076 Apollo years.
- random3 10y agoCan that speed be adjusted to a theoretical value based on latest propulsion systems? What would that be now and how would it likely evolve over then next decades?
- nhf 10y agoYou could use it like economists use the consumer price index - all relative to year. So you could have the Apollo, or human space year, or something and reference HSY_{1969}, or HSY_{ion thruster}, etc.
- russellbeattie 10y agoVarious probes have gone faster - with the cruising speeds depending whether they headed towards the sun or away. After New Horizons got a gravity boost from Jupiter, it sailed out to pluto at 23k/s and arrived going 15k/s. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-fastest-spacecraft-ever/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-fast... I'll have to look and see what they have planned for the Mars missions. I'm sure we've jumped ahead a bit in practical engineering terms, but just haven't had a mission to show it yet.
- johnchristopher 10y agoOufti ! For those who don't know it: - Trappistes are some special beer brewed by monks and Belgium is famous for a lot of them - Speculoos are some kind of brown sugar based cookies. Caloric bomb we name them.