32 new planets discovered by the Europeans
Yousuf Khan
- West Virginia News and Sports -
"What astronomers said is especially exciting is that about 40 percent
of sun-like stars have planets that are closer to being Earth-sized than
the size of Jupiter. Jupiter's mass is more than 300 times that of Earth's."
http://www.dailymail.com/News/oddities/200910190734
Andrew Usher
Any scientific article on this?
Andrew Usher
Yousuf Khan
You mean just something from a scientific website, or something that has
formulas and graphs and stuff?
If it's the former, then how about this one (video included):
32 New Exoplanets Discovered | International Space Fellowship
http://spacefellowship.com/2009/10/19/32-new-exoplanets-discovered/
Yousuf Khan
John Polasek
Space Fellowship makes it practically impossible to register. It's
amusing, what iron fences these websites choose to erect. Three or
four attempts is my limit. I was going to comment this about their
graphics:
"I think you owe the viewers an explanation as to the source of the
truly brilliant graphics, which, it seems, must be totally synthetic.
Is the large globe the earth? Even the best images of our nearest
neighbor alpha Centauri, 4 ly distant displays as smudgy discs (3).
There is a sickening amount of fakery as it is on the science
channels, I think the computer graphics artists should complain as
they do all the work but get no credit."
John Polasek
Yousuf Khan
> Space Fellowship makes it practically impossible to register. It's
> amusing, what iron fences these websites choose to erect. Three or
> four attempts is my limit. I was going to comment this about their
> graphics:
>
> "I think you owe the viewers an explanation as to the source of the
> truly brilliant graphics, which, it seems, must be totally synthetic.
> Is the large globe the earth? Even the best images of our nearest
> neighbor alpha Centauri, 4 ly distant displays as smudgy discs (3).
> There is a sickening amount of fakery as it is on the science
> channels, I think the computer graphics artists should complain as
> they do all the work but get no credit."
> John Polasek
The video was provided by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), not
by Space Fellowship. I think thou dost protest too much. :-)
Yousuf Khan
John Polasek
In the newspaper site below, the author took care to use the words
"artistic rendition."
http://www.dailymail.com/News/oddities/200910190734
But if you look at the ESO version there is no such clarification.
So I still say that these agencies need to be more forthright.
And, I repeat my question: Was that large sphere the earth, and if so,
where was the photographer standing? They owe us at least that.
John Polasek
Androcles
"John Polasek" <jpol...@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
news:os9ke5dq2v6kddkna...@4ax.com...
So I'll repeat the answer, "This artist rendering provided by the European
South Observatory..."
So give a URL to the ESO version, you owe us at least that.
Yousuf Khan
I think most people have figured out that it's just an animation, not
true photography. Most photographs of Earth are taken from the Space
Shuttle or the ISS, and from low-orbit, so the perspective is quite obvious.
Yousuf Khan
John Polasek
<bbb...@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote:
On last night's Science Channel, regarding the search for other
planets, several optimistic remarks were heard, such as (IIRC) "it is
expected with further advances to get more detailed pictures of the
planets" knowing full well that even images of the closest star are
only approximate smudges. Their brilliant presentations boggle the
mind, but I still think they owe to the public to indicate directly
that these are all simulations, and copiously embellished ones.
John Polasek