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Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by Nobody: 8:46pm On Sep 20, 2020
An international team of astronomers are baffled after discovering an "impossible planet" the size of Jupiter – which could even host life.

Of the thousands of planets discovered outside the solar system, most orbit stars that will eventually evolve into red giants and then white dwarfs as part of their natural life cycle.

During a star's red giant phase, any planets caught in too close an orbit will be engulfed. Further away planets can survive and continue to orbit around the following white dwarf, although at a distance.

Until now there's been no evidence that planets can survive intact while in close orbit around white dwarfs.

However a group of astronomers from around the world using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the retired Spitzer Space Telescope recently observed a giant planet candidate "transiting" the white dwarf WD 1856+534 (TIC 267574918) every 1.4 days.

Transiting means when a planet eclipses its orbit star, from the perspective of observers on Earth.

The planet, believed to be around the same size as Jupiter, seems to be intact and locked in a tight orbit with the white dwarf, something previously thought to be impossible.

Researchers involved in the discovery, which was published in the journal Nature, say it defies much of what we know about the formation of planets.

Andrew Vanderburg, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who contributed to the paper, says one of the defining features of a white dwarf is that it tends to pull in celestial bodies with its strong gravity and destroy them in the process.

If the newly-discovered planet is verified to be intact, it will be an unprecedented discovery.

"The explanation that we think is the most likely is that there were other planets in the system or other objects in the system," Prof Vanderburg told Salon.

"We know that there are two other stars orbiting this white dwarf very far away. Maybe they could have exerted some influence on this planet that we saw back when it was orbiting far away originally because it had to be orbiting far away, or it would have been engulfed.

"It could have changed its orbit so that it was very, very elliptical, and then when it came in close to the star, it just barely grazed the surface."

The alternative explanation is that the planet avoided being engulfed by the white dwarf through its sheer density.

Prof Vanderburg says the discovery is particularly exciting because it suggests new types of planets existing in a "habitable zone" on which we can search for life.

"I think the biggest implication for this is that there's a possibility for life to be in places that we hadn't really considered before," he said.

"In a white dwarf system there's also a habitable zone, but because the white dwarf is really tiny and it's cooling off and is really, really faint, you have to huddle a lot closer to that star in order for it to be potentially habitable."

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/scientists-discover-impossible-planet-possibility-22705062

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by GogetterMD(m): 8:49pm On Sep 20, 2020
Certainty of life out there.... Science, myth, or divine creation?

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by ggirl4real: 8:49pm On Sep 20, 2020
Beautiful

This is why I love science

It keeps evolving with new discoveries, providing solutions to human problems unlike religion which is stagnated.

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by Righteousness89(m): 8:53pm On Sep 20, 2020
Brothers and Sisters Don't be Carried away with all these things.
All these are being said in Preparation for what is about to Happen..

The Saints, All who Believe and Have Accepted Jesus Christ are about to be taken in the Greatest Mystery since the Earth was created. I talk about "The RAPTURE "

After we (the Saints) are Snatched away. The whole World would be Confused.
Listen carefully,
Some Persons would begin to Spread a "Strong Delusion" that the people missing were taken away by Aliens/ UFO's to another Planet!
If you have been Following World Events, you must have heard about UFO's being seen in Different Parts of the World..

See 2thess 2:11
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
( Read from 1-11 for better Understanding).

What we Have is Heaven and Earth. Let no one Deceive you.

Most Important! Prepare to Meet JESUS!
To avoid all these Delusions..
Don't be Suprised with all these! Scriptures Must be Fulfilled..

Scientists are Limited..
They Can't Know above their Maker..
They Can't Know above GOD Almighty..

There is no More Time..

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by merieam16(f): 9:02pm On Sep 20, 2020
God is really great...This is awesome

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by merieam16(f): 9:03pm On Sep 20, 2020
Atheist will love this...

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by padi94(m): 9:10pm On Sep 20, 2020
Okay, make them go bring Wetin worst pass Corona come this planet

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by ggirl4real: 9:23pm On Sep 20, 2020
merieam16:
Yea, buh who created those things that they keep discovering

I don't know, do you know?

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by ruggedtimi(m): 9:27pm On Sep 20, 2020
Life!!

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by ThreeEyedRaven: 9:32pm On Sep 20, 2020
Whatever you guys are doing just don't bring other lifeforms to destroy the earth's population embarassed

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by cassidy1996(m): 10:05pm On Sep 20, 2020
Having 'Possibility For Life' .....oyinbo can talk lie

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by Arthurity1(m): 10:05pm On Sep 20, 2020
An organism from that plant would be an unstoppable force here on earth. Like a real life superman.

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by Soulsymbol99: 10:08pm On Sep 20, 2020
Datz una wan go scatter dat place as una do hia angry no go wrk 4 una

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by Nobody: 10:17pm On Sep 20, 2020
TBH, science has done more harm than good.
A good example is this covid-19 pandemic, at end of the day we will all praise science for giving us the vaccine but what we are forgetting is what brought the virus in the first place.

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by 4t4th(m): 11:08pm On Sep 20, 2020
let me start parking

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by Abbanazeeza(m): 11:37pm On Sep 20, 2020
That's why I love science. Alot of ethereal endless interesting discoveries... Next level...checking for the possible living organisms therein. GOD IS GREAT!

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by MemoriesAndMe: 11:48pm On Sep 20, 2020
Ok. They have started again o. Why are these people looking for what is not lost all the time?

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by emorse(m): 12:10am On Sep 21, 2020
merieam16:
Yea, buh who created those things that they keep discovering
No one can say for sure.

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by emorse(m): 12:11am On Sep 21, 2020
MemoriesAndMe:
Ok. They have started again o. Why are these opinions people looking for what is not lost all the time?
If someone in the times past didn't"look for what is no lost", you probably would have died of something as simple as malaria.

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by D1official: 12:13am On Sep 21, 2020
ggirl4real:
Beautiful

This is why I love science

It keeps evolving with new discoveries, providing solutions to human problems unlike religion which is stagnated.
Science is a name given to the natural evolution of man... Science will not receive your soul, Jesus will.

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by emorse(m): 12:15am On Sep 21, 2020
OJay360:
TBH, science has done more harm than good.
A good example is this covid-19 pandemic, at the of the day we will all praise science for giving us the virus but what we are forgetting is what brought the virus in the first place.
Did science give you malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis and other diseases too many to mention? Yet it gave you cures for all of them. Be grateful bro.

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by haiti007(m): 12:29am On Sep 21, 2020
All this una discovery self, I tire.
Can someone discover how Nigeria can be any better?

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by TalkTalkTwins(m): 12:42am On Sep 21, 2020
This people don come again �

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by Alkheira(m): 12:56am On Sep 21, 2020
Okay, but tell us how many light years it takes to get there

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by OlaQudex: 1:23am On Sep 21, 2020
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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by KendrickAyomide: 3:45am On Sep 21, 2020
OJay360:
TBH, science has done more harm than good.
A good example is this covid-19 pandemic, at the of the day we will all praise science for giving us the virus but what we are forgetting is what brought the virus in the first place.
if no be science you for no they type this nonsense from your phone

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by Nobody: 6:25am On Sep 21, 2020
emorse:

Did science give you malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis and other diseases too many to mention? Yet it gave you cures for all of them. Be grateful bro.
Like I said what caused all these diseases in the first place
Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by Nobody: 6:27am On Sep 21, 2020
OJay360:
Like I said what caused all these diseases in the first place
What caused the ones in ancient times and even Bible days
Do u know that in the past, people who had high fever were killed as witches and wizards when they display symptoms but for the invention of medicine

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Re: Scientists Discover Impossible Planet, Having Possibility For Life by Nobody: 6:40am On Sep 21, 2020
Macsjebs:

What caused the ones in ancient times and even Bible days
Do u know that in the past, people who had high fever were killed as witches and wizards when they display symptoms but for the invention of medicine
Science didn't begin now, it started long ago even in Bible days and is not that I am against science, in fact am still pursuing a degree in pharmacy but it's just that science is used in a wrong way, I mean, nuclear bombs that can sink a city, it shows that with the help of science we have people with the mindset of destroy a nation. Like I said before about science doing more harm than good, it means science does good but we keep forgetting the bad side.

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