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Stand on the surface of an alien planet with NASA

sudshr47 May 29, 2018

In all likelihood, no one from Earth today will set foot on a world orbiting another star, but thanks to NASA, we may have the next-best thing.

NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration tool lets anyone with an internet connection experience what it might be like to stand on the surface of a planet light-years from Earth and look up into the sky.

The website is designed to transport you to some popular exoplanet destinations — like Kepler-186f, the newest planet to be given this treatment — to look around the planet in 360 degrees.

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The first photo from NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite is full of so many stars

sudshr47 May 18, 2018

A new NASA telescope, sailing toward its assigned orbit, took a moment to look around before it starts its ultimate mission: searching the galaxy for alien planets.

NASA’s TESS spacecraft — short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — beamed home one of its first photos taken from space, and it’s a doozy.

The photo, which effectively amounts to a test of one of the satellite’s four cameras, contains more than 200,000 stars, NASA said.

But that’s only a fraction of the number of stars it will eventually study in order to find alien worlds out there circling them. Read more…

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NASA’s TESS is going to be your new favorite space mission

sudshr47 April 8, 2018

On April 16, NASA’s latest and greatest mission is set to launch to space.

The new space telescope is named TESS — short for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — and it has a pretty awesome job.

TESS is going on a hunt for alien planets.

The new mission, which is more than 10 years in the making, could mark our first step toward discovering another planet outside of our solar system that harbors life.

“TESS is opening a door for a whole new kind of study,” Stephen Rinehart, TESS project scientist, said in a statement. Read more…

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Finding alien life probably won’t drive us into panic and chaos

sudshr47 February 22, 2018

On a humid summer’s day in 1996, President Bill Clinton appeared on the South Lawn of The White House and announced that NASA had discovered what looked to be fossilized bacteria on a Martian meteorite.

It was unprecedented for a President to publicly address potential evidence of alien life — and on television. But the American public didn’t react to the unexpected announcement with panic, fear, or social upheaval.

“You didn’t see droves of people abandoning their religion, spouses, or jobs,” said Michael Varnum, an assistant professor of psychology at Arizona State University, in an interview. Read more…

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