The first reflected light from an exoplanet detected
For the first time scientists have detected directly the reflected light coming from an exoplanet.
Astronomers using the HARPS planet-hunting machine at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have made the first-ever direct detection of the spectrum of visible light reflected off an exoplanet. These observations also revealed new properties of this famous object, the first exoplanet ever discovered around a normal star: 51 Pegasi b. The result promises an exciting future for this technique, particularly with the advent of next generation instruments, such as ESPRESSO, on the VLT, and future telescopes, such as the E-ELT.
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” . . planet-hunting machine. . .”
“They say there’s no devil, Jim, but there is. Right out of hell, I saw it!”
Unrelated but related:
At a point in his life where he has no reason IMO to deceive, this high level military / government official in a position to know publicly makes a definitive statement.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/world-wide-cabal-leaders-covering-aliens-pol-article-1.2195513
Comments?
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” (Carl Sagan), and he doesn’t have any.
Evidence is a must, agreed, if your able to gather it.
Has the government VA bureaucracy by default created evidence in this case?
http://www.openminds.tv/vet-says-government-acknowledged-injured-ufo-duty/32397
An interesting case with substantial documentation.
If we are contacted by an extra-terrestrial entity, we’d better hope our leadership follows the Hawii’an model. They won’t, but one can hope.
Blair,
Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly do you mean by “the Hawii’an model”?
I always get the idea that if we could see them couldn’t they have already been looking at us? And with far better equipment.
Just based in the length of time the universe from what we can observe has existed, our solar system is only about 1/4 as old as the universe itself. How many civilizations could have existed and died even before our solar system was even formed? How many might still be around and how much further are they developed than we are? 10,000 years? 100 million years?
Its not something IMO to ignore, people have been observing something unfamiliar to their understanding for hundreds / thousands of years. Im not even attempting to say what it is that they have been “seeing”, but I rather think that its something rather than nothing. And if it is something, what the hell is “it” ?