Gliese 581g - First ever habitual extrasolar planet found

[Terywj [태리]]

Source: http://news.discovery.com/space/earth-like-planet-life.html

I'll let the article speak for itself.
Stole this from Victra. What do you guys think about it?

 

[victra♥]

Thats for crediting me! XD Needs a better title dude. No one's gonna know what that means

This is pretty amazing though. Like, I wish we could find out more!

 

[Terywj [태리]]

There. Is extraterrestrial life better? Did I even spell that correctly?

And yeah, me too.

 

[victra♥]

First ever habitual extrasolar planet found.

imo

cause this is hella hype

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Done and done. Thank you for the suggestion.

Now let there be hype!

 

[Kole]

There is no reason to be hyped...

All we know about it is that it is in the habitable zone and has a higher chance for life than any other planet we have discovered. We won't even know if there is life there or not until hundreds of years; and it probably won't fit conditions for anything on Earth to live there. So no future colonization or migration or anything.

Spoiler

And I'm laughing at how I knew about the Gliese system and was interested/had high hopes about it before this.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Yeah but there could be life. We'll never know.

 

[Kole]

Key words: could be

There could be life on Europa, Enceladus, or even Titan for all we know. So this title is a misnomer. I'd actually change it to something like "Extrasolar planet discovered that could support life/is in the habitable zone"

Oh yeah, I forgot to add: 581g is tidally locked, so that's a slimmer chance of life there.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Oh well. Go blame Victra, hahaha.

 

[Mota]

Pretty cool I say, it even kinda looks like Earth

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Pretty cool I say, it even kinda looks like Earth

The situation definitely sounds a lot like Earth.

 

[Fuelbi]

Looks a lot like Pandora imo

 

[Tomo Takino]

There could be life on Europa

Man, I know their in economic crisis right now, but that's a bit harsh, don't ya think? Paris is a very lively town!

 

[victra♥]

Key words: could be

There could be life on Europa, Enceladus, or even Titan for all we know. So this title is a misnomer. I'd actually change it to something like "Extrasolar planet discovered that could support life/is in the habitable zone"

Oh yeah, I forgot to add: 581g is tidally locked, so that's a slimmer chance of life there.

A lot of astronomers and scientists are arguing that the probability for life is near 100%, if not 100% on 581g. Its true that 581g is tidally locked, its arguable whether that slims and greatens the chance for life. If you took a skim through the article, it's said that the consistent temperatures due to being tidally locked (one half is forever night, the other, forever day) in fact result in a stable ecosystem.

The different between 581g and the other celestial bodies is that, 581g shares the important fact that its within a habitual zone to its sun, similarly to Earth and our sun. I think its because of this fact that everyone is so excited, because this is a really good chance. Though checking out those 3 moons here in our solar system is a lot more practical.

 

[RATED]

**** , that sounds so awesome, I am hyped even if I am not the kind of scientist person.

just knowing that there may be life in another planet, I mean ****ing awesome.

sometimes I wish to get "frozen" and then "reborn" in another time just to see the awesome stuff that could happen someday.

 

[Mr.Freeman]

It looks eerily like Earth.

 

[StinkomanFan]

Yes! Now we can send astronauts there and see if it'll play out like a b-horror movie!

 

[Geist]

If it's only 20 light years away from us, there might be ALOT more of these.

 

[Merkuri]

Awesome. Maybe the aliens their just discovered us too and we'll be meeting each other soon XD

 

[Kole]

Pretty cool I say, it even kinda looks like Earth

Looks a lot like Pandora imo

It looks eerily like Earth.

That's just an artist's interpretation rofl.

 

[UberMario]

How do we even know it's habitable?

According to this quote:

"One way to find out would be to measure the planet's light spectrum, which could reveal molecular oxygen or other possible signs of life in its atmosphere. But the overwhelming glare from its parent star makes it impossible to do that with current instruments."

It's impossible to determine the atmospheric/crust composition, it would be pretty cool if it was/is habitable though, of course, how would we get there alive? lol

 

[GoldShadow]

Do you know what makes this story much more interesting?

Back in 2008, a SETI researcher found laser-like signals coming from Gliese 581e, another planet in the same system. I believe the paper on it was released in May 2009.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/watch-this-space/story-e6frg8gf-1225710664198

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread464207/pg1

http://scienceforums.com/topic/18570-seti-laser-signal/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...lse-light-direction-newEarth-planet-year.html

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Gliese 581e, huh? Seems this solar system is interesting, indeed.

 

[Namaste]

Gliese 581e, huh? Seems this solar system is interesting, indeed.

It's not the solar system :suess:

 

[Terywj [태리]]

I thought 581e was a planet in the same system?

 

[UberMario]

It is. lol

I'm assuming Namaste was talking about our solar system, but yes, 581e and 581g are in the same [extra]solar system.

 

[Tacel]

Aliens - "So why did you name our planet, 'Goldilocks?'"

Humans - "Oh, Goldilocks is the name of a selfish little blonde that eats everybody's porage, sits in everyboy's chairs, and sleeps in everybody's bed. She's very picky, and so is the habitat for human life."

Aliens - "..."

And that's how the humans became extinct.

 

[Namaste]

I thought 581e was a planet in the same system?

planetary system, solar system technically just means the Sun's system, Sun just being the name for our star, ho ho :suess:

I wish there was a smiley with a monocle and tophat

 

[Budget Player Cadet_]

"Only" 20 light years away?

 

[Pikaville]

I know right, as if we could just stroll there. xD

Humans are NEVER going to get a chance to explore space properly IMO.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Well yeah that's a given but it's still pretty neat to find stuff like this out there.

 

[Jonas]

Interstellar travel should be possible someday. It won't be like in space movies where you can just get anywhere in an afternoon, but saying we will never ever be able to go there isn't true.

Oh and we should probably send a whole bunch of laser signals towards the newly discovered planet

 

[Wretched]

Uh
you guys are getting way ahead of yourselves. It not habitable for us, We'd only be able to live right in the center between the shadow section and the side facing towards the light. G581g doesn't have an axis that it rotates around, so it's temperature is constant. We don't know if it has an atmosphere or water.
The only reason we're so excited is because it it in the predicted Goldilocks zone of Gliese.
SECOND, the theory of how life started here is that amino acids formed a perfect sequence to create DNA, therefore creating the first "life." The chances of it actually occurring in the life of our universe (which could end) is abyssmal and the fact that they're giving it 100% chances is ridculous. Earth gaining life was probably one of the least likely things possible to happen.
Plus, with the formation of archaebacteria, we should also take into account that species can learn to live in extreme conditions.
Even if life did form, we assume that living things need water and oxygen, but thats only because we're aware of our kinds of life, not other possible kinds of life. There could be Nitrogen breathing... Helium breathing... methane breathing, even, species of life.
EDIT: plus, Gliese is 20 lightyears away, so the planets and the start that we're seeing is twenty years into the past.