Naming Convention
Does anyone know why Kepler-90a isn't used for the first planet?
Our Solar System is no longer the largest known planetary system in the Milky Way – after scientists confirmed the existence of an eighth planet, Kepler-90i, around a Sun-like star on Thursday. The discovery was made after Christopher Shallue, a senior software engineer at Google, and Andrew Vanderburg, a postdoctoral fellow …
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Because someone put the observatory in orbit.
ML can do amazing things if it's been given the data in the first place.
An interesting question would be is there any model for the distribution of the numbers of planets within a solar system (say for the class and number of suns) or across multiple systems (do you expect more planets in a solar system closer to the centre of a galaxy than the periphery, or vice versa?)
Obviously then you compare observations with theory.
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The sum of all this is, despite all these advanced space telescopes, AI models and people with brains the size of small planets, is that we don't know jack sh*t in reality. Yep, we know so little about what's really out there, that even in 50 years, we'll consider the ideas of today like something from the dark ages. The real funny thing is, we consider ourselves and advanced species! Maybe we are when compared to amoeba's, but I'm sure there are civilisations out there now that make us look like single-cell organisms.
Well, Adams or not, some of us do - when you have something as mundane as a timepiece on you wrist that casually just happens to literally bend light just so it can tell you the time of the day (for years on end, without needing any assistance from you like, say, winding it daily) I can't help but suspect anyone unimpressed is perhaps just the tiniest bit over-jaded...
"You have small planets inside and big planets outside, but everything is scrunched in much closer.”"
I have to wonder -- this comment, or variations on it, are applied to several of the more complex systems that have been mapped. Perhaps the math could use some tweaking somewhere? bah. I'm not an astrophysicist. I just wish I was.