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Rare Exoplanet Found In Star Cluster, Orbits Sun's 'Twin'
astroengine writes "Three new exoplanets have been discovered inside a star cluster, which is a rare find as only a handful of such exoplanets are known to exist. However, one of the three new finds is even more remarkable — it orbits a star that appears to be 'an almost perfect solar twin.' The discovery was made by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's HARPS exoplanet-hunting instrument (PDF) attached to the 3.6-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile and was confirmed by other collaborating observatories. The astronomers' attention was focused on the Messier 67 open star cluster, which is located approximately 2,600 light-years away in the constellation Cancer."
As this is only 2,600 light years away, it's well within the biblical-defined 6,000 year age of the universe.
Creationists rejoice!
Sun II - Interesting
Earth II - Exciting
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
There is only ONE "Sun". If you are referring to another star, either use its given name, or say "star".
An exoplanet orbiting a Sol-like star in a star cluster. I think I've read that story.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
I don't think they know what that word means.
Every article starts off the same way, it's only rare because nobodies seen the other million + scattered through the universe.
Even the article alludes to this "distance of over 2,500 light-years, the challenge to detect the slight wobble in the faint starlight was formidable"
Mentioned in the video, "over a period of many years"
How about "A before unseen blah blah blah found in blah blah
Unusual was used in the video as was "that's a lot of stars" that are starting to pop up, while the narration again calls it rare.
Now we can find out what rabbibunny tastes like.
Actually the Bible doesn't define a 6,000 year old universe.
Tell that to the fundies who go to amusement parks.
...just as the Bible indicates.
Of course it did. And all myths indicate a beginning. That's we humans conceptualize time.
I don't know what your beliefs are or what your game is, but I have a lot of beliefs myself - some that run contrary to scientific evidence, but you know what? I make an effort to look at the evidence and challenge my beliefs.
And keep in mind, the Bible was writtien well before modern science existed. Well before the Arabs developed modern mathematics. Just maybe - maybe - those stone aged peoples expressed their perception of God with the primitive concepts available to them. I also wonder why God made His presence known then and not now. Why aren't present day Sodom and Gormorahs (Las Vegas is my choice) being wiped out by God? Where's the saviour? - Well I'd argue that the Rev. Martin Luther King,Jr. was the second coming.
we humans have a tendancy to anthropomorphize everything and if we couldn't understand the physcial laws of the Universe, wouldn't it be natural to do so with those?
And for those who think snicker at that comment, what makes you think that all these physical laws with their uncanny regulaarity and systemic perfection aren't in themselves some intelligence? We may be here by chance, but who loaded the dice? Multiverses may be just getting the deck loaded right.
In the Universe One is Unique, Two is Common. It's just the first to found, more will be found...
It's a boring trip even in a Very Fast Picket OU.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
I wonder if either of them knows that Luther, the founder of Protestantism and ultimately the ancestor of their own variant thereof, did not define faith as they do. Faith, to Luther, was not so much the taking of a strict intellectual position as a basic trust in God himself. This definition not only allows for, but essentially requires, the perpetual re-interpretation of scripture in the light of new learning.
Though that notion was not new with Luther. It goes back even further, to people like Saint Augustine, who cooked up many ideas still believed by Protestants today, and who stated that Genesis was clearly metaphorical and that we should be willing to change our mind about it as new information comes up.
Biblical literalism is a defining characteristic of a very young (within the last century) but popular set of Christian denominations. The more educated variants of the faith recognize the fact that these books were not written with literalism in mind, and that intelligent interpretation requires a keen understanding of context as well as the use of our God-given intellect and moral conscience.
Unfortunately, Mainline Christianity continues to lose numbers, leaving more and more people believing that Christianity is defined, at its essence, by this strange notion of the inerrancy of ancient documents.
Which one is Jesus?
Suborbital [spaceflight] is the special olympics of spaceflight. - Rei
An almost-perfect copy of Sun located in an "open" cluster? I didn't know the FSF was branching into stellar engineering :).
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.