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… Metals And Signs Of Water – Found.

"A team from the University of Cambridge and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Spain used the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) found also that WASP-127b has partly clear skies.

WASP-127b has a radius 1.4 times larger than Jupiter but has only 20% of its mass. Such a planet has no analogue in our solar system and is rare even within the thousands of exoplanets discovered to date. It takes just over four days to orbit its parent star and its surface temperature is around 1400 K (1127° C)…."

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Armand

Now we know where to go next, after we completely use up these local concentric circles of orbiting resources. :)

Dan
PS. Can we just get back to our own Moon again? These other sensational finds of unreachable resources on distant stars simply sound too much like "perros soñando con huesos" at this point.

Wait for the stuff we'll see once the James Webb telescope is launched (in 2020).

Can we just get back to our own Moon again? These other sensational finds of unreachable resources on distant stars simply sound too much like "perros soñando con huesos" at this point.

Different guys involved. It's astronomers on the one hand and aerospace engineers on the other. Depends on priorities, which in turn depends on funding, which finally depends on the US Congress.

Can we lived in the Moon?….

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Armand

"Different guys involved. It's astronomers on the one hand and aerospace engineers on the other. Depends on priorities, which in turn depends on funding, which finally depends on the US Congress."

And more than a little private funding.

Dan

Dan, try to keep on topic.

You bemoan that we aren't going to the Moon in the same breath as announcing these sensational findings of far away planets. The former is done by NASA and is an engineering feat and the latter is done by astronomers in acedemia (Cambridge and IAC in this case). It's different people and different institutions involved.

Besides, didn't the current POTUS earmark over 10 billion for going back to The Moon? I'm sure that is quite a bit higher than the budget of Cambridge University Institute of Astronomy. By some margin.

As for the private funding, I count 3 companies. None have plans for the moon. They are scrambling for NASA cash to develope reliable delivery systems for resupplying the ISS. Only Musk has mentioned further things and that is Mars.

I'll state that the US will return to the moon for the same reason that it went in the first place. It's that the Russians (and now the Chinese) don't get there and start harnessing the natural resources. That's the most logical use for the new Russian Energia-3

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