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NASA, Google Spot Eighth Planet in Solar System Rivaling Ours (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google isn't just good for finding cat videos on the internet. The search giant's machine learning technology is also helping search the universe for planets outside our solar system. NASA on Thursday revealed the discovery of blazing-hot exoplanet Kepler-90i thanks to the use of a Google neural network trained to identify planets from the NASA Kepler space telescope's data. It's the eighth planet discovered in the Kepler-90 system, which ties it with our own solar system for the most known planets around a single star. Kepler-90 is a sun-like star located around 2,545 light-years from us.
So, the title makes it sound they found more plants rivaling our planet in our solar system. At least say "NASA, Google Spot Eighth Exoplanet in a Solar System Rivaling Our Own"
-SaNo
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SHUT THE FUCK UP
It needs one more.
"Bats are blind" Neil deGrasse Tyson can suck it.
Yes, that's his actual tweet that states bats are blind.
That's a GREAT SCIENTIST! for you, folks.
yeah because nazi germany and the ussr were totally incapable of any kind of scientific breakthroughs....
We were the fucking vanguard of the galaxy. The Solar System was the place to be. Then some other system comes out with 8 planets. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called Pluto. That was a honey of a planet with a sweet ass name. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards downgraded it to a dwarf planet. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling 8 planets and a gimp. Gimp or not, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to 12 planets...and a moisture strip.
I'd go further and say that the real thanks goes to the brave WWII American veterans of our "greatest generation" who laid the foundations of peace and prosperity to allow the growth of scientific knowledge. If the Nazis won, we wouldn't even have nuclear technology or even rockets.
I wish NASA changed their approach to these things. This is a nice finding all right, but it hardly warrants a TV release, much less the mystery associated with "next Thursday we are going to make an announcement". A simple press release, without any drama, would have been more than enough. By proceeding the way the are, NASA are stirring up false expectations in the public. When the announcement is made, the public may be forgiven for thinking "And this is the big announcement?". NASA has been crying wolf for years. They will be able to cry wolf not so many more times, before the general public becomes apathetic and indifferent to NASA's announcements. And, when that happens, NASA's annual budget will go down. Please, NASA, stop it.
There are many "star systems". Our is called the Solar System because our sun's name is Sol.
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8 planets full of cat videos, oh my!
Table-ized A.I.
We can't get there by any means we have or can see in the next 100 years. Why are we wasting all this money and acting like this is a HUGE find. Honestly, who cares?
NASA proclamations from on high just don't have the same zing?
You need to get rid of your space religion. It's all fake. The Earth is flat.
What in fuck's name does that headline mean?
A NASA engineer googled, "is there an 8th planet"
This is my sun. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Computational Astronomy, the confluence of past/current astronomical data with machine learning will truly transform what we think of as astronomy. With telescopes like LSST coming online in the next few years things are about to get really interesting.
Organization? You must be joking..
Our own solar system would not look like it to aliens from another star using a Kepler-like detection system. Because the orbits of the planets in our system have different inclinations, even if they could detect one of our planets the chances are small that they could detect another. In fact they would never be able to detect more than 3 of our planets using that method (Mercury+Earth+Mars or Mercury+Venus+Saturn). About 95% of the time when they could see one planet transit they wouldn't be able to see any others.
Also the mission as it is would not have detected any planets past mars. It has only been operational since 2009 and requires two transits to confirm, so planets like Jupiter with a 11 year orbit and Saturn with a 29 year orbit could not have been detected.
So these systems where we've detected multiple planets are actually unlike our own system, having many planets that are close to their star and in the same plane. The systems where only a planet or two have been detected are probably more like our own system, we have no way to tell if there are other planets with different inclinations or further out.