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POPSWrong Way Jose` Interesting article. Wonder what effect the exoplanet has on its host. hmmm... could this be a part of the multi-verse theory? food for thought.
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POPSDozens of 'Super Earths' Found The recent batch of exoplanets were all spotted with the High-Accuracy Radial-Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a 3.6-meter telescope and spectograph perched atop La Scilla mountain at the southern edge of Chile's Atacama Desert.
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POPSTrio Of Super-Earths: Harvest Of Low-mass Exoplanets Discovered With HARPS "Clearly these planets are only the tip of the iceberg," says Mayor. "The analysis of all the stars studied with HARPS shows that about one third of all solar-like stars have either super-Earth or Neptune-like planets with orbital periods shorter than 50 days." A planet in a tight, short-period orbit is indeed easier to find than one in a wide, long-period orbit. "It is most probable that there are many other planets present: not only super-Earth and Neptune-like planets with longer periods, but also Earth-like planets that we cannot detect yet. Add to it the Jupiter-like planets already known, and you may well arrive at the conclusion that planets are ubiquitous," concludes Udry.
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POPSLife on Distant Planet Astronomers look for the perfect conditions that would support evolution of life on other worlds. Eons from now, our own world will eventually become uninhabitable. Will we simply become extinct, or will we migrate to other worlds in hope of survival? As astronomers view the universe, they see all different stages of development in stars, their encircling planets, and other celestial objects or matter. Astronomers are continually learning as they look at the universe around us.
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