SUPER SIZED SOLAR SYSTEM

I have just read a mind blowing report on a solar system outside our own.

In fact they found something that's not only way beyond what I thought was possible currently but way, way beyond my own imagination. This was the distance the planet was from its parent star. When I state the distance and compared it to our solar system please remember that this actually does orbit it's parent star.

This is not a discovery showing signs of my theory that there us an abundance of star-less planets roaming interstellar space. Quite possibly intergalactic space too.

The star is one trillion kilometres from its parent star. To put this into some perspective this, as states in the report, is three times the distance from its star than Pluto is from our own sun!

It's also a fair bit more massive than Jupiter and at a guesstimate of 12 to 15 times the mass of our own largest gas giant calling it a Super Jupiter really does not do it justice.

If they had used Ancient Greek mythology instead of Ancient Roman you could have called it Kronos?

Hmm I wonder if Ancient Roman mythology has an equivalent of the father of the Greek Gods, Zeus, Neptune and Hades? Probably not, have to remember to look it up.

Hmm maybe for planets outside out own system they could use Ancient Greek mythology for the names along with a letter, parent star linked, and number?

Now despite the fact that they are finding planets ... sorry dwarf planets and possibly a proper planet further out than Pluto I never imagined finding anything at half that distance from the sun at all. Not even one third the distance. Not still orbiting the sun at any rate.

It turns out they have found several planets at an unimaginable distance from their parent stars but this is by far the furthest found this far. I somehow missed these other discoveries, odd because I use news apps.

I think I might look up a news app specific to astronomy, cosmology and astrophysics?

Good to see these discoveries coming in and seems bordering on thick and fast.

This will just increase over the next year or two and then, I now read, the long awaited James Webb Telescope will get launched.

The James Webb Telescope is not only the successor to the Hubble Telescope but one that will itself located extra solar planets, or planets outside our own solar system.

Maybe by then it may get one of its first jobs at looking at our ninth planet, if it exists and if they have pinpointed it's location by the time the scope is in orbit? There is certainly plenty of time for them to scan the heavens for this elusive wanderer of the outer reaches of the solar system.

It's odd as I'm beginning to feel that astronomy may be about to enter a golden age, or at least new one.

What with the New Horizons mission to Pluto along with the discover of these extra solar planets, stars of masses of 150 times that of our own sun and the James Webb Telescope I think many, many discoveries are just around the corner.

Solar systems with two dozen planets or more and that we can actually see? Oh just how cool does that sound?! :)

It's odd because I feel that computers and more specifically computer chips are about to enter a new golden age later in the year.

The lithography of three main chips is going to shrink considerably from 28 nanometres to 14 and 16 nanometres and unlike the long wait of five years or more fit this one they are already predicting 10 nanometres and now 7 and even 5 nanometres and ask of these by 2020.

These are for one set of CPUs along with two GPUs, Central Processing Unit and Graphics Processing Unit, along with the possibility of the graphics chips being able to be out to the task of normal committee workloads along with the Central Processing Units? This is known as HSA. These chips going into computers, servers and workstations at home or in the laboratories over time will make some big changes.

Many more things will become possibly over the next few years.

Hmm starting to wonder if any other of my areas might start to appear going into a golden age? I would settle for silver and even bronze!

Lol!

Hopefully a couple of other blogs I write might bring in yet another golden age about the same time, or within the next four years at least?

I feel pretty confident that I can!

;)

Astronomers discover largest solar system - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35420633

THE REAL NINTH PLANET?

Nice to see a story in the list that does not involve one on a certain British astronaut.

Not only have I seen the first, out one of, space exploration report that does not involve Tim Peake but it's a real shocker.

Well... to be honest it's one I've expected all my life up until they started spotting many other Pluto like planets. Sorry, dwarf planets. Once they found the fourth large dwarf planet that resided in the Kuiper Belt I had given up hope.

I had read and deep in the back of my mind loosely stored several reports for a case of a much larger body out there that were sound in their theorising.

I had remembered, on reading these reports, of claims that something perturbed the natural paths of distant objects in space.

Well now it seems that they have discovered the perturbed paths of enough objects to theorise that there is indeed not only another planet of some kind but a much larger one too.

An artist impression of this ninth planet have emerged with something looking like Neptune but darker.

Funny how they still do this despite how much Pluto shocked everyone.

I also wonder about some reporting of a gas giant planet?

Maybe it's possible the the pressure on a gas giant to some degree prevents said gases from being frozen? Like that on other Kuiper Belt bodies?

It's a very exciting piece of reporting and I hope that somehow they manage to spot it by telescope in the not too distant future.

I've also been of the belief that there exists planets between stellar systems without an orbit to any particular stellar object. In fact I've shared thought the universe is littered with them and think the discovery of this fact may well partly answer a long outstanding puzzle in astronomy. That of the ratio of matter in the universe, which is not quite right.

Now when I learned many years ago about where elements in the periodic table come from I realised that the planets were formed by a different star other than the sun.

In which case there must be many more out there if the sun was able to capture all that it did?

As it is being discovered that many other stellar systems are home to their own planets this is helping my long held theory.

I also had always theorised that most of the stars had their own planets. This was when you were considered a nut-job for thinking more than a few percent had planets. In fact I think it was once believed that none of the visible stars had any planets.

Today the universe is showing the narrow minded scientists that both stars and planets exist, or even exist in relation to reach other, where it was believed to be impossible. Stars measuring 150 times the mass of our sun and Super Jupiters very close to their parent star.

I also wonder what they will name these interstellar planets of they ever discovered them? Pluto being demoted the way it was does not bode well fit them being called planets.

But not being classed as planets will quite literally turn the very naming convention on its own head!

This is because and provided memory serves me correctly, the word 'planet' means wanderer due to the visible planets path across the night sky. In other words different to the stars.

Well I don't know about you but that literal term would be an exact match for homeless planets wandering interstellar space? The Kuiper Belt objects paths not following the elliptical plane, or that of the rest of the planets, also fits this naming convention.

Well all except for those that recently got to decide what a planet actually is.

In fact I think it's safe to say that of there was any argument it was to give a new name to all those currently classed as planets. Because now we understand them they have long since ceased to be the wanderers that they once were.

Wasn't much of a debate as far as I can tell. Lol.

Still I look forward to reading further reports on this new body and how it is much sooner rather than later.

Telescopes have progressed so far in recent times that you have to wonder, along with hope, that it will indeed be sooner rather than later?

Fingers crossed.

Case made for 'ninth planet' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35365323