J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-227 HUBBLE ANNOUNCES A MAJOR EXTRASOLAR PLANET DISCOVERY WASHINGTON –
NASA will hold a Science Update to report on a significant discovery about planets orbiting other stars at 2:30 p.m. EST, Thursday, Nov. 13, in NASA’s James E. Webb auditorium. This unique discovery, made by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advance Camera for Surveys instrument, also will be featured in the Nov. 14 issue of the journal Science. The briefing participants are: — Ed Weiler, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington — Sara Seager, associate professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. — Paul Kalas, assistant adjunct professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California at Berkeley. — Mark Clampin, James Webb Space Telescope Observatory project scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. — Marc Kuchner, exoplanet scientist, Astrophysics Science Division, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Reporters attending the event will have an opportunity to ask questions. News media representatives not attending will be able to ask questions via teleconference. To participate in the teleconference, reporters must email a request for dial-in information that includes their media affiliation and telephone number to J.D. Harrington at j.d.harrington@nasa.gov by 1 p.m. EST, Nov. 13. For more information on the Hubble Space Telescope, visit
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html
Could it be the first earthlike extrasolar planet that has been discovered? A rather small rocky planet in the comfortzone, maybe even with water detected on the surface?
dang, i was all set to call you an idiot for believing in Nibiru, and then you posted all this real stuff.
HOW, please tell me, HOW you skipped from “NASA will hold a Science Update” to “a planet full of winged monkeys is coming back to enslave Earth?”
Since the ACS camera has been down quite awhile, this isn’t some new observation. Sounds interesting. I was a little disappointed about what Phoenix found on Mars a few months back. It really wasn’t that big a deal.
References :
To much information!.
Love the subject but just tone it down and grab a bigger audience!.
Its absolutely fascinating but people love reading easy facts. I know the population was duped by the “Canals on Mars”, so lets make it more Concise and easier to get to grips with.
Hit them with amazing photo-facts and Earth-like experiences, They may not believe in canal, but they might get to flow with you…
References :
I guess we’ll find out next Thursday. Certainly not Planet X inbound! Thanks for alerting us to this.
References :
There already have been multiple earth like planets found. In fact they call them Super Earths because they are much bigger.
References :
dang, i was all set to call you an idiot for believing in Nibiru, and then you posted all this real stuff.
HOW, please tell me, HOW you skipped from “NASA will hold a Science Update” to “a planet full of winged monkeys is coming back to enslave Earth?”
References :