NASA announce new planets

Reverend

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39034050

Very exciting. Or all CGI fakes according to some...

TheBlueWolf

Very interesting to me, that's really cool

fretmeister

Awesome stuff!

earwighoney

They are all fakes sent out by the alt right media.  

Planets, suns, moons are not round but flat... 

not_the_dj

@siraxeman something to get your Stone Age knickers in a twist. 

terada

I simply can't believe this until it is presented in the form of a youtube video with a voiceover

ThorpyFX

Very happy about this, this is news I can enjoy

littlegreenman

And only 40 light years away. Very long term, that's potentially somewhere we could look to for colonisation, again, "very" long term.

Short term, nice if we can find a planet with an ozone rich atmosphere to show signs of "some" form of biological activity, however basic.

I wonder if those planets have any form of curvature though?

TheBlueWolf

Sorry but this new planetary system does not contain any spherical planets, because Ancient Pancake Aliens.

Linkage say you? I win.....

TheMarlin

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/2746443/our-universe-is-one-massive-hologram-and-our-entire-existence-is-an-illusion-scientists-claim/amp/?client=safari

Snap

40 light years? Pah, I'd get there in a week in my old Lada 1.6

RocknRollDave

40 light years? Come on, this is 2017 , what's that in mm?

Roland

9.461 x 10 to the power of 18

octatonic

Only 12.264 parsecs.

NelsonP

I noticed that Google are celebrating the discovery on their home page today. It seems like everyone is in on the spherical earth conspiracy  ;-)

Babones

I wonder if they'll name one 'Urpenis'

menamestom

 TheMarlin said:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/2746443/our-universe-is-one-massive-hologram-and-our-entire-existence-is-an-illusion-scientists-claim/amp/?client=safari

Tip of the day:-  Read research papers!  Do not read the Sun!

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.04878v2.pdf

Looks an interesting paper, although it refers to the very early universe - 'Plank Scale Physics'. Also, the model breaks down under certain conditions (l > 30) where it states 'the perturbative expansion breaks down in this regime the prediction of the theory could not be trusted.'   So not massively relevant to this article.

How the sun get to 'and our entire existence is an ILLUSION' from that paper I really don't know!

57Deluxe

will there be a public-wide naming consultation to any?

I will kick off with  Bummy Mac Bum Face

RocknRollDave

Correct me if I am wrong, but finding planets isn't all that rare? Now, if they found new one in our solar system, THAT would be newsworthy

Nikko

HNP day, NASA!

57Deluxe

RocknRollDave said:

Correct me if I am wrong, but finding planets isn't all that rare? Now, if they found new one in our solar system, THAT would be newsworthy

they have! - apparently a revision of the guidlines now suggests that the Moon should be reclassified as a Planet!

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/moon-rises-to-claim-its-place-as-a-planet-3m3wh5dz3