04-23-2015, 08:18 PM
"Thanks Tom. It's incredible how much has been discovered about other worlds in the past decade with existing telescopes. First exoplanets, then exoplanets with earth like conditions. Now for the first time we're capable of finding those planets with their own reflected light. Who knows what the TMT may discover with it's ability to gather three times more light than most other telescopes.
When I was a kid I still believed there were big-eyed Martians living alongside their network of canals. We've come a long way."
Thank you HOTPE. I continue to be in awe of the incredible discoveries that have been made by the astronomy community during my career. We now know planets exist around other stars. We thought they would, but it's now confirmed. An accelerating expansion of the Universe? Now that was a surprise. Still have a hard time with one that but the evidence seems sound. Rovers on Mars and a probe nearing Pluto. And we can now land a probe on a comet, although we might need a little more practise.
The next big discovery might be life elsewhere in the universe. I don't think that's too far off now. It might be on Mars or somewhere else in our solar system, but might be in other planetary systems. Or maybe we really are alone. We won't know until we find out. And to add to the buzz, for a while I was the person who detected light from the most distant object in the universe (the record has since been broken).
And then there will be all the surprises we'll discover in the next few years.
Do some people really not want to be part of this?
When I was a kid I still believed there were big-eyed Martians living alongside their network of canals. We've come a long way."
Thank you HOTPE. I continue to be in awe of the incredible discoveries that have been made by the astronomy community during my career. We now know planets exist around other stars. We thought they would, but it's now confirmed. An accelerating expansion of the Universe? Now that was a surprise. Still have a hard time with one that but the evidence seems sound. Rovers on Mars and a probe nearing Pluto. And we can now land a probe on a comet, although we might need a little more practise.
The next big discovery might be life elsewhere in the universe. I don't think that's too far off now. It might be on Mars or somewhere else in our solar system, but might be in other planetary systems. Or maybe we really are alone. We won't know until we find out. And to add to the buzz, for a while I was the person who detected light from the most distant object in the universe (the record has since been broken).
And then there will be all the surprises we'll discover in the next few years.
Do some people really not want to be part of this?