Can bacteria 'migrate' to other planets & survive?
Researchers have previously found that the Deinococcus bacteria can float 12 km above the Earth. These bacteria are known to form colonies larger than 1 mm and are highly resistant to environmental hazards like UV radiation.
The findings lend support to a theory called “panspermia”, which proposes that it is possible for microorganisms to travel through space, land on another planet and even multiply. More on CNN .
For the first time, an artificial intelligence algorithm has discovered 50 new planets outside our solar system using data from NASA's planet-hunting space telescopes.
Many things are taking place:
How old are you on other planets? Use this calculator to find out - Mirror Online
The planets in our solar system are extremely varied, ranging from Venus, where temperatures can reach a scorching 471°C, to Neptune, where it plummets to a chilly -201°C.
As well as varying in temperature, the planets also have different motions, meaning the length of a day and a year is very different.
Now, Exploratorium has put together a handy calculator that lets you see just how old you would be on the other planets.
When To See The Moon And The Planets In Close 'Conjunctions' This Weekend And Through August
It's a great season for planet-spotting, with all the planets in the Solar System making an appearance.
However, what makes us planet-spotters really get excited is when the planets and the Moon get close.
Astronomers call these events conjunctions . There's one coming up this weekend, and a few more before August is out.
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This morning before dawn a waning 15%-lit crescent Moon will shine beside bright Venus in the constellation of Gemini.
Outback amateur astronomers track planetary changes from Queensland backyards - ABC News
They are star gazers — two of only 50 or so backyard astronomers around the world who are so dedicated to watching and photographing the planets that professional astronomers rely on their observations.
Amateurs and professionals around the world are following a bright new storm on Jupiter, that was first seen on August 18
Every night they're in their backyard observatories, in Rubyvale in Queensland's Gemfields, using their homemade telescopes and other equipment to track changes on the planets, especially on Jupiter, Saturn and Mars.
Many things are taking place:
There could be trillions of rogue planets flying through space
The universe is a cosmic mess. Next to everything that crashes, explodes and keeps morphing out there, so many planets are thought to have gone rogue and scattered all over the solar system that NASA is going to launch a mission to find them.
Planets don't just materialize in the vacuum of space. Their formation involves aggregates of dust and other materials continuously head-butting one another until they start to stick together into what could be called a planet. Asteroids, meteors and dwarf planets are often thought to be the leftovers of planetary formation that never got huge enough to qualify as planets (sorry Pluto ).
Detection Of Ten New Planets, Three Planet Candidates, And Confirmation Of Three Planets Around
Mass and period distribution of known planets and the planet candidates found in this work. The candidates are represented by different shapes and colors of markers. HIP 38594 b is a temperate super-Earth, denoted by the black-edged diamond marker. The Jupiter analogs are denoted by the yellow-green-edged cross while the cyan-edged markers denote the warm and cold Neptunes detected in this work. The Solar System planets are represented by the blue dots.
Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of M dwarfs are good candidates for the study of habitability and detection of biosignatures.
A new AI system just confirmed 50 new planets
In 1995, astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail were observing a distant pulsar star when they noticed that the regular rhythm of its pulsating light seemed to be skipping a beat.
The search is still on with ongoing space missions scouring the cosmos. To speed up the process, a team of astronomers has come up with a new machine-learning algorithm that rules out the false positives and confirms the real exoplanets.
With the help of their AI system, the team of astronomers from the University of Warwick have confirmed the existence of 50 new planets.
NASA's TESS Completes Primary Mission | NASA
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