OMG, Exoplanets

exoplanet-hunting space telescope Kepler

The 833 new planets thus identified bring the total found by Kepler to 3,538.

must await confirmation by other telescopes before being promoted to full discoveries. But astronomers expect a low rate of false positives.

In May Kepler suffered a malfunction and it is now crippled

NASA had announced a successor mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, due to launch in 2017

Economist

Are any of the planets habitable?

The article says something about how the closest planent is light years away, so most likely we won't know about that any time soon.

dang.
this would imply the same forces that created this solar system, might have worked elsewhere?

You might call it galactic uniformitarianism in the same way that eighteenth century geologists like James Hutton, John Playfair, Charles Lyell, William Whewell believed that the forces that formed Earth continue to form Earth, and I suppose also other planets.

I think I read somewhere 1 in 8 stars have Earth like planets around them.. if at least 0.1% of them had life... jesus!

galactic uniformitarianism
sounds military somehow.

did they include, what may not work here, might within our universe?

I doubt that any of the planets are like Earth. Planets the size of Earth would be too small to be detected.

Military people have uniforms, and geologists think that things like sedimentation are uniform in the sense that the rules now are the same as the rules when the earth was young. And the same rules probably apply to exoplanets.

i read planets can only be formed from exploded stars?

Yes, that is the standard explanation. The elements that make planets come from stars, which have belched their guts into space.

the only place for dense creation, would be in a dense place.

i wonder what blackholes create, other then a galaxy spinning about it.

I'm sure I'm not the person to answer this, but I'd guess that every black hole has a galaxy.

or is it, every galaxy has a black hole?

This is a artist drawing of solar system hd189733. The blue planet is hd189733b. The three dots in the upper right corner is an image taken with an x-ray telescope. The upper left hand dot must be the exoplanet's star. The dot to the right is a companion star. The dot on the bottom is another unrelated star. The system is 63 light years away, which is too far to see the planet.

NASA

GJ 1214b was discovered in 2009. It is roughly 2.7 times larger than the Earth.

Astronomers determined that the planet GJ 1214b is shrouded by high-altitude clouds - a little like Venus.

The cloud cover makes it impossible to know exactly what the planet's surface is like.

Daily Mail