Ah mi interessa tutto il che non aiuta temo.
Mumble...
a) E' questa una ricerca prioritaria NASA al momento anche perché si pensa possa interessare l'opinione pubblica e quindi portare finanziamenti?
b) Copio da wikipedia:
2013[edit]
PH2 b: On 3 January 2013, the discovery of a "Jupiter-size" extrasolar planet that could "potentially be habitable" was announced.[56][57] The exoplanet was discovered by amateur astronomers from the Planet Hunters project of amateur astronomers using data from the Kepler Mission space observatory and confirmed, with 99.9 percent confidence, by observations at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.[57] PH2 b is the second confirmed planet discovered by PlanetHunters.org (the first being PH1).[56][57]
Kepler-69c (formerly KOI-172.02): On 7 January 2013, the discovery of an unconfirmed (Kepler Object of Interest) candidate exoplanet was announced by astronomers affiliated with the Kepler Mission space observatory.[58][59] The candidate object, a Super-Earth, has a radius 1.54 times that of Earth. Kepler-69c orbits a sun-like star, named Kepler-69,[60] within the "habitable zone"[59] a zone where liquid water could exist on the surface of the planet. Scientists claim the exoplanet, if confirmed, could be a "prime candidate to host alien life".[59]
On 18 April 2013, NASA announced the discovery of three new Earth-like exoplanets – Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f, and Kepler-69c (now confirmed) – in the habitable zones of their respective host stars, Kepler-62 and Kepler-69. The new exoplanets, which are considered prime candidates for possessing liquid water and thus potentially life, were identified using the Kepler space observatory.[61][62][63]
2014[edit]
On February 26, 2014, NASA announced the discovery of 715 newly verified exoplanets around 305 stars by the Kepler Space Telescope. The exoplanets were found using a statistical technique called "verification by multiplicity". 95% of the discovered exoplanets were smaller than Neptune and four, including Kepler-296f, were less than 2 1/2 the size of Earth and were in habitable zones where surface temperatures are suitable for liquid water.[64][65][66]
quindi nel 2014 c'é stato un grandissimo boost nella scoperta di esopianeti grazie ad una suppongo nuova tecnica di che si tratta?
c) Lo studio ed "ascolto" delle onde gravitazionali portava a notare la presenza di buchi neri et similia. C'é una relazione tra "ascolto" delle onde gravitazionali ed esopianeti?
d) In prospettiva questo studio/scoperta degli esopianeti a cosa può portare?
e/sf) Avrà ragione Leiji Matsumoto quando dice che se non si schioda dalla terra la razza umana non ha futuro?
