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Project 1640: Reconnaissance Of Alien Solar System Begins

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Researchers have conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant solar system with a new telescope imaging system that sifts through the blinding light of stars. Using a suite of high-tech instrumentation and software called Project 1640, the scientists collected the first chemical fingerprints, or spectra, of this system’s four red exoplanets, which orbit a star 128 light years away from Earth. A detailed description of the planets—showing how drastically different they are from the known worlds in the universe—was accepted Friday for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.

 
“An image is worth a thousand words, but a spectrum is worth a million,” said lead author Ben R. Oppenheimer, associate curator and chair of the Astrophysics Department at the American Museum of Natural History.
 
 
 

Researchers have conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant solar system with a new telescope imaging system that sifts through the blinding light of stars. Using a suite of high-tech instrumentation and software called Project 1640, the scientists collected the first chemical fingerprints, or spectra, of this system’s four red exoplanets, which orbit a star 128 light years away from Earth.

 
“An image is worth a thousand words, but a spectrum is worth a million,” said lead author Ben R. Oppenheimer, associate curator and chair of the Astrophysics Department at the American Museum of Natural History.
 
 A detailed description of the planets—showing how drastically different they are from the known worlds in the universe—was accepted Friday for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.

This visualization, produced using the Hayden Planetarium’s Digital Universe—the most comprehensive and scientifically accurate, three-dimensional map of the known universe—shows where the star HR 8799 is in relation to our solar system. 

It also shows other stars that are known to harbor planetary systems (stars with blue circles around them). HR 8799’s system, which is 128 light years away from Earth, is one of only a couple of these stars that have been imaged, and the only one for which spectroscopy of all the planets has been obtained. Over the next three years, the team will survey many of these other stars in the same manner in which they studied HR 8799. 

This video shows the long exposure of the HR 8799 system. The star is at the center of the image, blocked by the coronagraph. Each frame of this movie shows a slightly longer wavelength of light, or color progressing through 30 different wavelengths from 1.0 mm to 1.75 mm in the “near infrared,” colors too red for the human eye to see. 

The speckles move radially outward from the star because they are an optical effect. Because they move in the movie, and real celestial objects do not change position at different colors on the sky, the planets around this star can be found using software that looks for objects that do not move in this movie.

 
The planets surrounding the star of this study, HR 8799, have been imaged in the past. But except for a partial measurement of the outermost planet in the system, the star’s bright light overwhelmed previous attempts to study the planets with spectroscopy, a technique that splits the light from an object into its component colors—as a prism spreads sunlight into a rainbow. Because every chemical, such as carbon dioxide, methane, or water, has a unique light signature in the spectrum, this technique is able to reveal the chemical composition of a planet’s atmosphere.

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    • HereAmI

      Er, no. It is physically impossible to resolve objects at this distance. These people are the most disgusting liars, and no amount of acronym-wrangling or CGI-twiddling makes it any different.
      Science so-called has now entered into the realm of wholesale deception; as such, it is increasingly clear that it is a satanic religion at heart.
      There are two descriptions of the universe and the origin of creation; each is essentially based on religious belief. The Talmud and its diabolical offshoot the Kabbalah, states that there was a big bang, and that evolution occurred over billions of years to produce what we are today, and that the earth revolves on an axis and around the sun.
      God has told us the truth. He created man 6000 years ago, at some time after creating the universe in six days and nights. The sun revolves around the earth, which is stationary at the centre of the created universe. “The world also is firmly established, it shall not be moved” and “The sun also arises, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose” are the relevant scriptures.
      Ask yourself this question. If the earth is spinning at 1000 mph at the equator, as the Jews inform us, then how do the oceans not respond to this acceleration by overflowing their basins and generating a maelstrom of global destruction as they do so? There is no way they could possibly remain placidly sitting where they sit if the earth is spinning. Inertia is the technical term; the oceans would tend to lag behind the spinning earth, and very rapidly they would emerge as a gigantic tidal wave overwhelming everything.
      Everything you thought was settled is not settled. Copernicus merely generated an alternative hypothesis to the geocentric model, based on nine separate but interlinked assumptions. Assumptions are not science.

      • Idiot Proof

        I so hope that you were joking about the Earth’s rotation, and the water sloshing about…If you were not joking, I hope that you think it through a little bit more and figure out that what you said is utter nonsense. Inertia, yes that is applicable, but not in the context that you are referring, the term that explains why the oceans do not slosh about with mile high tidal waves is, equalibrium. IF, the Earth was stationary, and then some outside force acted upon it and started it rotating, at it’s current speed, from a standstill, the oceans would be expected to slosh around, but after a while, everything would be rotating at the same rate…and it would look, just as it does today.

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