this is BIG news..
Could you imagine the implications? There have been some incredible pictures of Pluto this year with unprecedented clarity. And now, astronomers think they may have detected a new large planet like formation past Pluto, at the very edge of our solar system. Here is a bit more information on the developments:
Astronomers using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found a distant object in the direction of Alpha Centauri. The object appears to be in the outer region of our solar system, and depending on its distance could be a hypothesized ”super-Earth.”
In 2014, ALMA found a faint object in the direction of Alpha Centauri A & B. The object was again observed in May of this year, this time more clearly. Given that the object is within a few arcseconds of the Alpha Centauri system, it would seem reasonable to presume that it could be part of that system, possibly gravitationally bound as Alpha Centauri D. The Centauri system is about 4 light years away, and at that distance (given the object’s brightness at submillimeter wavelengths) it would have to be a red dwarf star. But such a star would also be clearly visible in the infrared, so if this object is Alpha Centauri D we should have seen it long ago.
It seems to be somewhat of a coincidence in that it was in the direction of Alpha Centauri. Now that they have figured that out, expect much more focus on this unusual formation. Here is one of the possibilites about this object which is the cause for all the buzz:
Another possibility (which seems more likely to the object’s discoverers) is that it is about 300 AU away and about 1.5 times the size of Earth, making it the first “super-Earth” found in our solar system.
Check back for updates.
thanks to forbes.com for the great info
This is TMZ level stupidity and you should be ashamed for sharing this.
I may have confused the term ‘exoplanet’
Dehrich let’s go!
Let’s go
And the only people that would ever make it there would ruin it.
Niburu
Cool but we never be able to get there it would take way too long to get there.
What if it really did work like superman and we would be in some way enhance if in that environment??
I cry bs
We could f@$k it up so good and we have this planet to prove it.
At that size and au it would be a super sized ice ball. Not Earth like at all. Also,it would be largely useless to us as the sun would look like a dim dot in the sky from its surface. Even as a place to go when the Earth is swallowed by the sun in the distant future it would still be useless.
It is because the Keiper belt and oort cloud as full of these planet sized ice balls that Pluto was demoted. If they did not then kids would have a hundred planets to memorize.
Because that headline gets readers.
The term super+earth just means its bigger than Earth and smaller than Neptune.
Hahahahahahha
This is not science
If Trump wins the election, I’ll build the ship
Quick, show us some great CGI snapshots. Pffft….
Major cool!!!!
Next episode of ancient aliens, and all that ananaki/niburu nonsense coming soon…!
Not yet…
Not true!
If it has grater mass then earth it could have the same heat as earth because mass would collect more light even being farther away.
Jeramiah Harland
Planet X nibiru!!! It’s real
There’s 2 of them and the smaller one produces enough heat to produce earth like temp. They were found in the 80s its nothing new the only thing is low light would be our ptoblem
Must have a super Sun then ?
Alexander Krauss Larz Weber
Celeston Haywood
Seeing as astronomy.com already posted an article debunking this claim, I can no longer take this page seriously because it is pushing faulty logic and bad science.
It’s too far out for anything human. Remember guys were still in the 21st century building bombs to use on our own planet and our own species.
Planet fungus….
Leys mine it to terraform mars
Planet cores a very hot, life could be there, but since we need more data, then id recomend carfully speculating.
Looks like that planet needs some democracy.
You know planets that size have an heated inner core that keeps a lot of those planets warm right? So it’s not impossible for life 😉
I am an astrobiologist and an astrogeologist. And I mentioned use to us. I am more concerned with searching for life on closer bodies that we can more easily study.
No, no they didn’t.
More interested in Europa and Encelladas.
You do know that unless you see anything outside of planet earth for yourself this could all be lies right ? Wait never mind live your book educated life , my bad.
Quincin VirtualReality Williams you know we got a pretty hot for too right?
Quincin VirtualReality Williams you know our core is pretty hot too right? Like sun level hot, still not enough to warm us out that far http://www.livescience.com/29054-earth-core-hotter.html
Niburu
Wouldnt life adapt like a penguin or polar bear?
Wish my phone would let me read this.
Eden Prime.
Hell id go
Wouldn’t it be a dark place to live? Look at the bright side you wouldn’t need sunglasses or sunblock…. Js
I bet its many many years to get there
They suspect a red dwarf mothering star….between our solar system and alpha C.