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Hubble Signs of Life

The Hubble Space Telescope makes the first ever detection of organic molecules in another solar system. ESA "Hubblecast" with Dr. Jay Liske.

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3/7/2009 12:39:19 PM

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Bnine75 : LVL 44: VP 5: said:

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247 days 4 hours ago...

If this Liske guy is gonna survive the internets, he`s gonna have to do better then that!

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tones_420 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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247 days 2 hours ago...

i love how we find other forms of life by the farts they produce.

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WilliVanilli : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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246 days 7 hours ago...

meh-thain
meh-thain
meh-thain
MEH-THAIN
METHANE!!!

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scavenger : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

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246 days 7 hours ago...

Whats with that stinky ass cow?

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shasha : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

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246 days 5 hours ago...

if they descovered life on other planets not sure they would release it to the public

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Enigma90 : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

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246 days 5 hours ago...

that guy probably smokes meeth.

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!IAmCanadian! : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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246 days 4 hours ago...

man..... it feels like a fucking game... hard to believe... theres gotta be SOMETHING out there.

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Unospazmatic : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

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246 days 3 hours ago...

"Steeempy breeeeng meee the meeeeethane"

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thehumungus : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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246 days 1 hour ago...

methane, yourthane, ourthane

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Bishop_Vick : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

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246 days 1 hour ago...

i cant take someone wearing a raggedy Ann t shirt seriously...

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Luncaster55 : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

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246 days ago...

Seriously, I want to know how the hell you can detect methane, let alone the temperature of a planet 63 light years away, with the Hubble telescope?

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FLiPsTa : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

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245 days 23 hours ago...

love the viking ginger shirt...

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hybrid2d4x4 : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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245 days 22 hours ago...

Luncaster > one way of finding out that there`s methane in its atmosphere is if the planet is between the hubble and its star, and the light from the nearby star is shining through the atmosphere(like in the eclipse situation @ 1:45). As the light passes through the gas, certain wavelengths of light are absorbed so that if you were to shine that light through a prism, you`d see black gaps in the rainbow-color spectrum you`d usually get. Different substances have different characteristic wavelengths missing. If you want to know what`s in a mystery gas, shine light through it and see what wavelengths are missing, then compare to a reference. That`s the simplest way I know of, but there are probably a few other independent methods.
As for the temperature, it`s possible to derived it from its color (look up Blackbody radiation). This probably wasn`t the case here (not sure to what extent this planet would be considered as acting as a BB if it`s mostly gas), but I just wanted to give you an example of a way we can find these kinds of things out without having to actually be there with a thermometer in hand.

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