Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star
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Re: Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star
#2Always nice to have options on where to send the colony ships.
Re: Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star
#3A little farther out than Wolf 359, where of course humanity will one day battle the Borg.
Re: Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star
#415 day orbit, 170 day planetary rotation, that's an interesting one
Sucks for the amount of radiation ofc
Would be interesting to hypothesize of it being a larger mercury like planet than a earth like one
Please some more up to date astro-duders out there, is the James Webb currently capable of direct spectrography of exoplanets? We can do spectrography during the transit I am aware, but direct spectrography, is that possible? Specially when we are talking of an infrared telescope
Re: Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star
#515 day orbit, 170 day planetary rotation, that's an interesting one Sucks for the amount of radiation ofc Would be interesting to hypothesize of it being a larger mercury like planet than a earth like one Please some more up to date astro-duders out there, is the James Webb currently capable of direct spectrography of exoplanets? We can do spectrography during the transit I am aware, but direct spectrography, is that…
> is the James Webb currently capable of direct spectrography of exoplanets?
Yes [1].
[1] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/james-webb-space-telesco...
Re: Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star
#615 day orbit, 170 day planetary rotation, that's an interesting one Sucks for the amount of radiation ofc Would be interesting to hypothesize of it being a larger mercury like planet than a earth like one Please some more up to date astro-duders out there, is the James Webb currently capable of direct spectrography of exoplanets? We can do spectrography during the transit I am aware, but direct spectrography, is that…
Could be a non problem depending on the atmosphere
Re: Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star
#7Always nice to have options on where to send the colony ships.
Followed by an ALM movement a hundred years later. Aliens will rise up complaining of how they were treated in the mines by no other than the earthling colonists.
Re: Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star
#8Detected by the radial velocity method, measuring the parent star being pulled toward and away from us by a variation of at little as 2-3 meters per second! It always blows my mind that we can measure that.
Re: Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star
#915 day orbit, 170 day planetary rotation, that's an interesting one Sucks for the amount of radiation ofc Would be interesting to hypothesize of it being a larger mercury like planet than a earth like one Please some more up to date astro-duders out there, is the James Webb currently capable of direct spectrography of exoplanets? We can do spectrography during the transit I am aware, but direct spectrography, is that…
> is the James Webb currently capable of direct spectrography of exoplanets? Yes [1]. [1] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/james-webb-space-telesco...
That's sheer insanity. It's mind boggling that at that distance (and therefore footprint on the optical elements) you can directly resolve something even as small as 7x Jupiter.
Re: Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star
#10Detected by the radial velocity method, measuring the parent star being pulled toward and away from us by a variation of at little as 2-3 meters per second! It always blows my mind that we can measure that.
Read up about the precision LIGO needs. Pretty mind boggling.