My New Extrasolar Planet Blog

Hope to see you all at my new blog decided to get my own domain since it was available. As of now, there is a good chance I will not be posting here anymore and any future findings of extrasolar planets will be documented on my new blog over at extrasolar planets, I will be leaving this up though as I think there is some pretty good information on extrasolar planets here, but if you want to keep up to date then please stop on by and subscribe to my new home. Thank you exo planet seekers!

Hubble - The Most Important Picture Ever Taken

I have been trying to come up with some new content for this extrasolar planet blog but with the recent stops of exo-planet discoveries it has made it a little difficult for me to do so. But I was on Digg the other day looking through some stories when I stumbled across this video that I think everyone should watch, for it is very informative and blows up in your face. This video below will surely answer your question of is there life on other planets.










source: deepastronomy.com

No new updates on extrasolarplanets

The month of July 2008 has not had too many updates on extrasolar planets, not many have been discovered. I promise to start updating this site whenever I find some new information. My apologies for not keeping up to date like I should. We will find an earth like planet soon.

smallest extrasolar planet detected

Astronomers set the record for finding the smallest extrasolar planet to date on may 30th, 2008, orbiting around the star MOA-2007-BLG-192L. It is estimated that MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb only has about 3 times the mass then earth does. The planet is guessed to be about 3000 light years away from us, which will make it extremely hard to ever view even with our future telescopes like the giant Magellan telescope. The planet was discovered using the gravitational microlensing technique.

The star MOA-2007-BLG-192L guessed to have only about 6% of our suns mass, so we think it’s either a red dwarf star that sustains nuclear fusion or a brown dwarf, also known as a failed star. This discovery around MOA-2007-BLG-192L just makes us realize that it is very common for low mass stars to have low mass extrasolar planets around them. The extra-solar planet MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb is guessed to be about half the distance that our Earth is to our sun. Which in theory would make this a very cold planet maybe even as cold as Pluto considering that the star doesn’t give off 1/10th of the light our sun does.
So an extrasolar planet discovered 3,000 light years away orbiting a very small star doesn’t really hit the jack pot on discovering a habitable planet. It may, it may not but it shows us that smaller stars like MOA-2007-BLG-192L do have smaller extrasolar planets closer to the size of Earth. It the next ten years I think we will make a giant leap in finding extrasolar planets like MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, with technology upgrades and extrasolar planet missions and all that.

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