http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... tter-daily

Can't live there though ... too hot ... no water. Not without extensive terra-forming.

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Only Reavers live there.

I just saw this yesterday. I feel like every solar system found seem to have planet(s) that circle the parent star very fast, besides in our own.

Encryptshun wrote:Only Reavers live there.

LOL

alms24sebring wrote:I just saw this yesterday. I feel like every solar system found seem to have planet(s) that circle the parent star very fast, besides in our own.

You also have to take into account the fact that it is easier to see the planets that have faster orbits.

hmm I think its more the bigger planets. Its faster to detect them from the amount of light being blocked and showing up again, but I wouldnt say easier.

Why not? If a planet orbits faster it will travel in front of the star more often then say a neptune or uranus. That being said bigger planets would block more light. The way Kepler works is it looks at a star sends the data back to us and we graph its data. People then look at said data for transits where a a planet could be blocking light. It usually takes around 3 hours for a planet to transit a star, this would then be represented on the graph as a drop in light. The bigger the planet the bigger the drop of light. Earth sized and smaller planets block less light and the transits can be much harder to pick up on the data. Sunspots, Flares, noise and other technical problems also have an effect on the data generated. Also Kepler's data is 35 day graphs. So planets with bigger orbits might not transit in time for us to see it. While planets with smaller orbits might do so ever 12 days.

To give you an example of what the raw data looks like. The gap in data is when kepler was either off in safe mode. The higher points are stellarflares and some of the lower points could be spots. There is also some noise in there. What is looked for is a "raindrop" of data. For example right before the gap in the data where kepler was turned off, there is a string of data that could be a transit.

Yeah I know what the data looks like. I guess what I was trying to get at was if there was multiple planets or for the ones that circle the sun in only a week or less.

Its cool though, still waiting to see some more space pics from you.

The great thing about a star that orbits in a week is it gives you a pattern. Same goes for multiple planets.

I was going to try and shoot tonight but the sky wasn't co-operating.