Earth like planet found

last month a earth like planet has been found orbiting a red dwarf called Gliese 581, this system is only 20 light years away and has 3 other planets orbiting this red dwarf. it is said to lie in the “Goldilocks zone” witch is a zone in the solar system were the conditions are not too hot or too cold for liquid water to form,this planet has a mass of three to four times that of Earth and takes 37 days to orbit the star. Astronomers believe it is a rocky planet with enough gravity to retain an atmosphere, now for me this is very exciting news as astronomers keep studying this planet if it has the right chemicals in its atmosphere there is a chance it could harbour life.

But the question if it does harbour life what would they look like small, microscopic? or would they be alien animals romaing around its surface lets just hope that if it can sustain life we would be able to visit it someday .

sightings

if anyone has any evidence of ufo or ghost sightings please post them on my blog it will help a great deal getting my blog going thanks.

life in the outer universe

In my opinion I think that there is life out there, if you stop and think about it for a while you start think that there if billions of galaxies with billions of stars inside them.

To not think that there could be planets that have some sort of life on it is just annoying, someday our telescopes in space like hubble or the james webb telescope witch will be launched in 2011 or 2012 will bring us more information that we weren’t an accident and prove that what happend to us is a common thing in the universe.

hubble has already found outer solar planets orbiting stars it’s just a matter of time till we find life and when we do it’ll be us laughing at the cynics not the other way around.

I just think people are stupid to think that we are the only life out there.

the Big Bang vs the Book of Genesis.

According to your personnel beliefs you either believe that the universe was created by one being in a short space of time or it was created by the Big Bang which was a massive explosion that happened 13.7 billion years ago. In my opinion it is more likely that the Big Bang created the universe because there is no tangible proof to date that Christ even walked the earth or if there was an Adam and Eve from who we are all supposed to be descended. Here I will outline some arguments for and against the theory of Creationism.

#’If the Bible says the universe was created in seven days then it was seven days…’ – Why and how? For a start we don’t even know who wrote what is in the Bible that we read. Why accept such a simple answer to the most complicated question in existence without any proof at all? It seems that people don’t seem to understand that no one was there to witness the creation of the earth.

#’Only god could create the universe in seven days…’- Are we talking abut seven times twenty four hours – how long was a day back then? We already know how long it takes for one tree to grow to its full height and it takes longer than seven days. That is where we have proof of how a tree grows, through seeing how it happens. How can we believe that this entire planet was created in seven days when just one tree takes over one hundred years to grow to its full height.

#’The Bible is always right’ – no its not because there is much more evidence these days about how things were made and how long it takes for something to form. It also states in the bible that everybody on earth came from just two people called Adam and Eve but this is impossible considering how many races there are and how many different languages we speak. It also says in the bible that Adam and Eve had two sons called Cain and Abel – where did they find the two women to marry, and especially after Cain killed Abel if Adam and Eve were the first and only people to be created? This is where what the bible states can not stand up as fact.

The Accelerating universe

Before astronomers found out that the universe was accelerating they belived that it was decelerating .The only question was if the decelerating would halt that expansion or not.But in 1997 two teams of astronomers who were observing completely changed that view.

The astronomers were observing supernovae explosions in the distant universe. These bursts of light shine briefly, with the intensity of a billion Suns and as a resault they become becons that astronomers can use to study the universe on its largest  scales. This is because, as the light  of the explosion travels through space, it suffers a redshift because of the expansion of the universe. When both teams did the calculations using data from different supernovae,they found out  that the figuers did not add up; the supernovae were fainter than expected. This could only be explained  if the expansion of the universe has accelerated, the only way to explain that the universe is accelerating is if it contains an exotic form on energy, known as vacuum energy. Matter, which produces gravity,can only cause  attraction so can the Universe. But vacuum energy, has the opposite effect.

questions

hey everybody if u have any questions about the universe or our simple solar system u can ask me.

An international team of astronomers

An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years away, the object is being viewed at a time only 750 million years after the big bang, when the universe was barely 5 percent of its current age. The primeval galaxy was identified by combining the power of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and CARA’s W. M. Keck Telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. These great observatories got a boost from the added magnification of a natural “cosmic gravitational lens” in space that further amplifies the brightness of the distant object

Mystery star cluster has 3 different birthdays

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to study the dimmest stars in the cluster, astronomers uncovered three different age groups. Two of the populations are dead  stars called white dwarfs. One group of these stellar remnants appears to be 6 billion years old, another appears to be 4 billion years old. The ages are out of sync with those of the cluster’s normal stars, which are 8 billion years old.

“The age discrepancy is a problem because stars in an open cluster should be the same age. They form at the same time within a large cloud of interstellar dust and gas. So we were really puzzled about what was going on,” explained astronomer Luigi Bedin.

Hubble finds first organic molecule on an exoplanet

NASA  hubble telescope has found the first organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter sized planet . the molecule it found was methane a key part in the prebiotic chemistry. It is the chemical reactions considered necessery to form life as we know it. we have already found water , salt and methane these are some of the key parts for life in the outer universe.

Easter Island mysteries

One place I would really like to visit is Easter Island, or Rapa Nui in the langauge of the original inhabitants. The island was only first explored in 1722 by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who was searching for Davis or David’s island.^[The island’s official Spanish name, Isla de Pascua, is Spanish for “Easter Island”.

First settled by a small party of Polynesians, Easter Island is one of the youngest inhabited territories on Earth, and for most of its history it was the most isolated inhabited territory on Earth. Its inhabitants, the Rapanui, have endured famines, epidemics, civil war, slave raids and colonialism; have seen their population crash on more than one occasion, and created a cultural legacy that has brought them fame out of all proportion to their numbers. People have always wondered why the island became uninhabited so quickly – I think it was because the people there ran out of fresh water and food supplies.

The large stone statues, or moai, for which Easter Island is world famous were carved during a relatively short and intense burst of creative and productive megalithic activity. 887 monolithic stone statues have been inventoried on the island and in museum collections. Although often identified as “Easter Island Heads”, the statues actually are heads and complete torsos. Some upright moai, however, have become buried up to their necks by shifting soils. It must have been a brilliant sight for that first Dutch explorer when he arrived at the island and saw them lined up along the shores. No-one yet has really explained why the people built them at all.

I wonder if the mystery will ever be solved.