32 New Exoplanets Discovered

I've watched astrophysics lectures from Yale on the web just for my own education, so I think I should point something out. Just to help people who are confused understand. The reason planets are so goddamn hard to find and stars are not is the same reason that it's hard to see stars in the day. The reason you can't see stars during the day, as many of you probably know, is because of the light in the foreground obscuring your vision. Now, the light that you see as a "star" is actually several magnitudes larger than the star itself. See, when the light from faraway stars reaches the Earth it has been expanded and distorted through the atmosphere so that it appears as a bright light. In actuality, if stars appeared as big as they are you wouldn't ever be able to see any stars at all because they'd be so small being so far away. The light that you see as a "star" is a huge engulfing distortion that obscures the star AND its surroundings. It's a bit like bright headlights obscuring the features of the car which casts them. THAT'S why planets are so hard to see, because if someone from ANOTHER star were to look at our Sun it would appear as if the Sun was a massive light engulfing our entire solar system because the light expands and distorts itself after traveling so far, the planets around the Sun - even the far away ones like Neptune - would be invisible in the blanket of light that they'd see our Sun to be. I know I repeated myself a few times here, I'm just trying to put it a few different ways to make sure I don't confuse anybody. Reply

Very good explanation. Reply

Great more places to put balloon boys family. Wall Street bonus babies. Rod Blago and his wife. And a cast of thousands. Devils Islands in space where nobody and hear Jon and Kate talk Reply

Jesus and Jehovah never said anything about other planets. Other planets are put there by Satan the Devil to confuse non believers. Reply