I wanna be sure because I heared a planet by the name of senda has been found, it that true, I heard it on the news a couple of years ago I wonder what kinds of creatures live on that planet?
2007-12-16 14:26:03 · 12 answers · asked by I represent possibility- Shawn 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
there are 100 billions and more planets in this universe....astronomers find new planets on daily bases
for example a planet called Gliese 581c have been found which they say is an Earth-like Planet and there are many more planets......
2007-12-17 17:42:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It may sound cheesy at first, and this is the most cliché answer, but it's good...
We explore the universe and space to find our own place in the cosmos, because we are literally on a very (relatively) small planet that surrounds a relatively small star. If you look up into the sky and see those thousands of stars, try to imagine an entire planet with a civilization orbiting one of those stars. Things are so ridiculously far away that our minds are not able to comprehend the distances involved.
If you had the chance to, would you not explore as much as you can what's out there, rather than living your life in ignorance (and I don't mean this in a bad way) of what may possibly be a great discovery..
Which leads to your question of new planets being found.
Planets are found now about every month and new technology is being developed to find planets much quicker. Now, if we happened to find a planet with LIFE on it, we'd know that life is more common than just this one planet Earth (which is the only known planet to support life).
With this knowledge, we can look at pictures such as these:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0608/ngc1300_hst_big.jpg
and know for a fact that SOME of those 400 billion stars in that galaxy* may support life.
COOL, HUH?!
*NGC 1300 is a galaxy with around 400 billion stars. It doesn't appear like that when looking at the photo, but that faint white glow that makes up the arms of the galaxy is millions upon millions of stars. It's like looking at a computer (LCD screen, and seeing solid white. Yet, there are thousands of pixels making up the white you see.
2007-12-16 22:55:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They find new planets all the time...its just that they are all too far away to actually explore right now. I don't remeber the "Senda" thing, but it is probably in some distant solar system if they did find it. One of the main reasons that we explore space is to better understand the processes that happen on earth. I know that that sounds strange, but it is actually easier to understand things when they are isolated in space. Many experiments in medicine, physics, and other fields can be done in antigravity in space which can't be done here where there is gravity. Basically we explore so that we can know more about more.
2007-12-16 22:34:47 · answer #3 · answered by gangsters_life_4me 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
With present technology we are frequently discovering large planets circling relatively nearby stars. The system doesn't work very well with small planets like earth. Newer technology might improve that, but nothing we can build will tell us what sort of life might exist on a world. The presence of life might be inferred by the nature of the atmosphere, but thats about it. We will never know what sort of life exists around distant suns. Stars are just too far apart. Interstellar travel is useful in science fiction but it will very likey never exist. Distances are too vast and energy requirements for propulsion and life support are too great.
2007-12-17 15:05:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the last few years, a few rocky spheres have been found around and beyond the orbit of Pluto. They aren't described as planets, in fact the definition of "planet" was changed because they were found. Sedna is the name of one of them. There will be no life on it, as it's small, cold and dark.
Other planets have been discovered around other stars, though they haven't been seen directly because they're too small and their stars too bright. A few of them are at a distance from their stars in which water is liquid, if there were water there. Because of this, it's thought that there is the POSSIBILITY of SOME SORT of life. Our technology currently doesn't allow us to rule it in or out.
2007-12-16 22:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have found couple of planets that there is a possibility of life on it. So the chances of life on one of them is very possible. I think what you talking about is Gliese 581 C. Yes that is true and that planet is VERY similar to earth. They say that life in that planet is very possible. I think if they have life in that planet, they would be similar to our creatures because the two planets are so much alike.
2007-12-16 22:44:30 · answer #6 · answered by TSW 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
planets are found almost every day.
not in our solar system but other systems light years away.
in our solar system, Eris, a new planet was found beyond pluto, beyond Eris, Senda was found. I believe they are still wondering what to call it and what to classify it as.
no life has been found out there yet though.
Senda is not likely to carry life on it. it seems to far from the sun.
for duh face.
the government already feeds hungry children in the form of food stamps and homeless shelters. its the parents that are too busy doing drugs to sign them up for the stamps.
I've known a woman that traded her food stamps for crack and let her children starve while she was living it up. She ended up in court over it and is serving 2 years now.
other countries receive our help too. some of them are too violent to send huge groups over to and help. They become political targets and murdered.
its not a matter of the government its about the voting people. they don't want to send people to countries that will only kill them, or even steal the food from the children.
2007-12-16 22:30:47 · answer #7 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
About 1 new planet a month is found.
By the time you are my age , a new planet every second will be found.
'Evidence' for life might be found , like a Breathable atmosphere , or water .
2007-12-16 22:34:28 · answer #8 · answered by londonpeter2003 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if a new planet has been found, but Pluto is no longer considered a planet
2007-12-16 22:32:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
we've found thousands of new planets
now, planets with LIFE is a diferent thing!
our planet is the only planet (that we know of) that has life
we've found planets that COULD have life, used to have life forms, or have the capabilities of supporting life
but none that we are sure actually HAS life (but ours)
2007-12-16 22:34:09 · answer #10 · answered by colo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋