Carrot7b

[Chaza]

Can anyone answer this.

I was shown a photo of what was claimed to be carrots,  487 light years away, how can anyone take a photo of this sun that distance away. 

[John]

I think you mean Corot-7b which is an exoplanet apparently orbiting the star Corot-7 ?

This was discovered in 2009 using transit photometry, ie: detecting a small dip in the luminosity of the star when something passes in front of it.

There are plenty of artists impressions and simulations of this system about but no direct images:

Here is a NASA artist impression:

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/305/artists-impression-of-corot-7b/

 

[Chaza]

3 hours ago, John said:

I think you mean Corot-7b which is an exoplanet apparently orbiting the star Corot-7 ?

This was discovered in 2009 using transit photometry, ie: detecting a small dip in the luminosity of the star when something passes in front of it.

There are plenty of artists impressions and simulations of this system about but no direct images:

Here is a NASA artist impression:

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/305/artists-impression-of-corot-7b/

 

That's what I thought, when I was shown this photo, given its 483 light years away,there is no way  any photo could be got.

What is your take on this so called nibiru that some claim is in our solar system that no one has seen. 

Thanks

[John]

29 minutes ago, Chaza said:

What is your take on this so called nibiru that some claim is in our solar system that no one has seen....

 

Absolute load of bunkum.

[David Smith]

Would be impressive shooting carrots at that distance!

[bingevader]

18 hours ago, John said:

Absolute load of bunkum.

Oh, come on John, what's not to love...

The idea of the Nibiru encounter originated with Nancy Lieder, a Wisconsin woman who claims that as a girl she was contacted by gray extraterrestrials called Zetas, who implanted a communications device in her brain.