NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Finds Hot, Fiery Planet
NASA’s Kepler space telescope is only in its testing phase, yet has brought exciting new findings to the scientific community.
The powerful new telescope is undergoing a ten day visual field test, as scientists prepare to use the powerful instrument in a 3 1/2 year mission to find planets that are a similar size to Earth and located within the Milky Way.
The first planet the telescope observed is pictured at left and orbits a star named HAT P-7. The planet itself is approximately the size of Jupiter, and the telescopes analysis revealed very exciting and groundbreaking information.
The planet is hot. Very hot.
From analysis of data, researchers found that the planet is 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit on its side that faces the Sun. The non-solar facing portion of the planet still measures in at an astonishing 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The giant, gaseous exoplanet’s high temperatures are related to its proximity to star HAT P-7, being 26 times closer to its star than the Sun is to Earth. It takes the planet only 2.2 Earth days to orbit the its star.
Female MIT professor and Kepler team member, Sarah Seager, stated the obvious about the findings:
“‘It learned that this planet is like 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That is so hot. And it’s 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit just on one side only. The other side would be closer to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.’”
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12:06 pm
“Female MIT professor and Kepler team member, Sarah Seager”
You seemed to find it necessary to point out that the MIT professor is a female. Why is that?
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12:50 am
Why not, she is a female?
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6:23 am
If the professor was a man, I highly doubt that Pat would have said “Male MIT professor…”
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7:08 am
What a prejudice thing to say, Claire.
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5:05 pm
What’s prejudice about my pointing that out?
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10:26 am
Claire – you work for CW, right? You keep the impassioned loonies arguing with your leftist liberal agenda and the articles get more reads…right?
If not, I want to know how you stay so devoted to your craft without getting paid to waste white space with your words.
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6:11 pm
No, I do not work for ChristWire. I want to beat the shit out of every fucking one of the writers (especially Adam Nelson).
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11:06 pm
What do you have against me?
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6:40 am
“What do you have against me?”
A lot. You have no respect for women. You believe women are inferior to men and should be subjugated by them. On one occasion you called a woman “rib”. You believe that spousal abuse is okay. You believe that women’s only purpose in life is to pop out babies. You believe that men are the sole creators of life and women are only the incubators. You believe that the Europeans were justified in the genocide of the Native Americans. You believe that America has the right to police the world and drop nuclear bombs on anyone we want. I would go on, but I have to leave for work in five minutes.
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7:00 am
So what’s your point?
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1:39 am
A ‘Female’ MIT Professor?
We pointed this out because….?
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8:00 am
“So what’s your point?”
You asked me what I had against you, so I told you.
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5:55 pm
I wonder if the MIT Female was also some different color than white. Ah probably not because if she was we would have heard about it.
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3:27 pm
Oh this site is priceless. 2 Thumbs Up!
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10:34 pm
it is necessary to point out that it was a women. Women do not usually graduate from hell bent schools like MIT and rarely discover much of anything.
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9:38 am
What the fuck is this shit.
I happened upon this piece of shit website researching the new stars found by the Kepler telescope and not only did you alter your information, but you are also a bunch of mysoginist fuckers.
FUck you, fuck your god, fuck off.
- your friendly atheist
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3:37 pm
Wow CW. If God is truly real, I don’t think he would like your website.. as a first time reader.. I am left with the distinct impression that you have missed the boat when it comes to Christ… GOD=LOVE.
I am not religious myself however I was raised this way and I know many who are, and they would never sit in judgement of so many, many things. This is why I left the Catholic Church you negate your “Christian” actions with your judgement of others. I will not judge you. But I certainly will not waste another moment reading this crap. IT IS CRAP.
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5:26 pm
I forgot about this one, where we see a female lesbian scientist showing sexism in the comment section.
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