The new planet, added to the four already discovered, resides deep within the zone of life. It is too big to contain life, but maybe one or more of its moons could have life
Scientists recently discovered a fifth planet orbiting a sun outside the solar system, and say that the discovery indicates the existence of many solar systems, similar to ours and including many planets.
The new planet is much larger than Earth, but is at a similar distance from its sun, the star, 55 Cancri. Four planets have already been discovered around this star in the past, but the new discovery makes the system the first to have five planets discovered around it, apart from of course our solar system, which since 2006 has had eight planets, says Debra Fisher, an astronomer at the University of San Francisco.
Life could certainly exist on this planet's moons, if there are any, but moons the size of Earth and certainly smaller would be difficult to detect with current methods, astronomers say.
The star itself is very similar to our sun in mass and age, Fisher said. "It's a system that looks full of planets."
It took astronomers 18 years of careful and delicate research to discover the five planets, which caused very slight fluctuations in the star's orbit. The first planet discovered took 14 years to orbit the planet once. According to them, 55 Cancri is 41 light-years away in the direction of the Cancer group. The newly discovered planet is 45 times heavier than Earth and may resemble Saturn. It is the fourth planet at its distance from the star and the duration of its orbit - its year - is 260 days, an orbit similar to that of Venus. It should be slightly warmer than Earth but not too much, says Jonathan Lunin, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona. This is due to the fact that his sun is slightly colder than ours. "If this planet has a moon, it will have a rocky surface, so that the water on it can collect in lakes and oceans," says Jeff Mararsi, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley. But it must have a large enough mass to keep the water, and water is known to be the key to life. "We now know that our solar system is not unusual," Marcy said.
Astronomer Dr. Avishai Gal-Yam from the Weizmann Institute of Science says that since the current distance of the fourth star among the five planets that were discovered is such that it probably allows for the existence of water in a liquid state, which may allow life, however, according to him, the star itself is too large, and therefore Its gravity is strong and apparently does not allow life. What's more, the star itself is made of gas, but there is a reasonable chance that there are moons around it, that the distance between them and their sun is such that liquid water exists and, thanks to them, also life.
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The main problem is not the agreement or disagreement regarding Torah and science, but the appropriation, and the ownership they took from them
About something that we all received as an inheritance "the Torah commanded us Moses,
"Morsha Kehilat Ya'akov", from now on don't say traditional, religious, etc., these are my heritage, it's part of the cultural heritage of the whole object, and from the little I know it's a great heritage
Shabbat Shalom
June:
I don't know how old you are, but I remember that in our holy land they had to remove from the shelves a milk delicacy with a dinosaur on the cover because it hurt religious feelings (except for those who are willing, like Shahar, to make eights in the air and say that God created the world with dinosaur fossils in the bowels of the earth just to mislead us)
June,
Could you provide some references from the rabbis, who agree that there is no contradiction between science and the Torah?
Meanwhile, according to the amount of talkbacks I see on Ynet, there are some religious people who see a very big contradiction between religion and science. By evolution, for example.
Thanks,
Roy.
Chalas to come down on religious people. There is no contradiction between science and Torah at the level of definition. The Torah is not a history book but a history between God and mankind.
And if you wish to continue digging: dozens of answers have been written by the great rabbis for thousands of years about the apparent conflicts between science and the Torah. There is no contradiction between the things.
There are extreme minorities who, like Catholic Christians, see a contradiction between science and the Torah, and since it is nice to hate ultra-Orthodox - you invent claims and kill them.
Hellas, grow up. Many ultra-Orthodox people study science, engage in science and get along with it just fine (Rabbi Halperin LaDoge, owner of Halperin Optics, wrote many things about science and they did not excommunicate him or shoes).
The article was very interesting and fascinating, what type of sun is there in the discovered solar system?
In the solar system they discovered, what type of sun is theirs?!
To all Torah believers
Just so you know that science is much more accurate than the numbers of the Torah
So what if you deny the story of the big bang but scientists have solid evidence and what if you have a book that has been passed down for hundreds of years and go find out if what is written is true or not
So it turns out that the whole world will advance in technology and money and only you "the Mitzvot observant" will remain inferior and poor until the ultra-Orthodox and the rest simply "extinct"
No one has yet proven that there is such a thing as God, but scientists have found fossils that have existed for millions of years, but the Torah writes that the entire world has existed for less than 6 years
So come on, until you bring proof that God exists, all this talk will not help you, so let us live in peace
So that's why it's better to ignore people like him,
All the best
And have a good weekend
Sabdarmish Yehuda
Yehuda, Rabbi Farkash was not and was not created. The commenter impersonating him is a frequent provocateur in the comments here, who sends comments that portray religious people in an ignorant way (he also responded in the long discussion about evolution - once - can't remember under what nickname).
As for the topic of the article, astronomers' accuracy is increasing year by year, but it will take some time before we find a nice planet with life at some point.
Rabbi Farkash wrote only one line and you have already responded against him in dozens of lines and he is getting his way. Leave him and his God, refer only to the topic of the article!!!!!!
Sabdarmish Yehuda
To Rabbi Farkash,
Can you prove the New Testament wrong? Is the Koran wrong? I'm sure you have a good explanation why they are not true, but you won't be able to prove it. If anything of the kind you ask for could be proven then these religions would not exist.
Response to the rabbi:
Where does it say in the Torah that there is life only on earth?
"Rabbi Avhu said: Hence the Holy One, blessed be He, was the creator of worlds and the destroyer of them, the creator of worlds and the destroyer of them, until He created these."
Pay attention to the plural.
Also refer to the Teacher Nabukim: "And the same divine science will not be achieved except after the natural sciences, because the natural science defines the divine science and precedes it during the study"
Some of the things that the Sages said were said not from the Torah but from the science of that generation (for example, the killing of Kenan on Shabbat, the order of the stars in the XNUMXth Hachaka, etc.) Rambam pointed out that there are things that were said from the side of science and not from the Torah. He also added that if science contradicts them in the future there is no In this to contradict the Torah.
Every real contradiction between science and the Torah will always have an answer:
For example: the age of the world, evolution, the big bang.
Science claims that the world has existed for millions of years, the Torah says less than six thousand.
It is possible to reconcile the fact that God created a "mature" world as He created a mature man, meaning that the world was created as if it had a natural development.
In short, there is and will not be any contradiction.
Okay then
If it took them until now to discover another solar system, that's fine
But why are they dealing with "creatures"
That is, for sure there is life in other solar systems that are really, really similar to ours
Some if advanced technology and some if less advanced technology
And those without technology
And even those who are not like us, watch out for us
Even like animals of a different kind.
Now why are you researching something that you will never be able to reach?
41 years is unnecessary in my opinion
It comes out to about the average age of a person at the age of 900 + million human years
Now think to yourself, why should you investigate?
Some things are better left undiscovered.
First of all, you will reach the Matim, after that you will try to reach "other solar systems"
It's not that I'm not complimenting
A. I reinforce Eyal's words from the first comment
B. I wonder what the connection is between strong gravity and the ability to sustain life. It seems very strange to me that because a planet is too big and terribly heavy life cannot develop on it. After all, there is life even at a depth of 11 km below sea level, where the pressure is enormous. You get used to everything, especially when you grow into it and evolve accordingly.
Of course, if the ball is made of gas then there is nothing to talk about, although who knows - maybe gas also has life.
Rabbi Nachman - you will continue to live in the opinions of the Middle Ages and closeness towards science and the enlightened world.
We will continue to engage in science and research and discover more and more
About this wonderful universe that we are a part of.
The ferry to Abi Bilovski is supposed to land today
Dear Rabbi: Your demand is fundamentally unfounded; No matter what we prove, you will always claim the correctness of the Torah, and this is because the correctness of the Torah is for you a decision, an axiom, and not a theory to be proven or disproved
Prove that the Torah is wrong
How far is the star from our solar system in light years?
Water is the key to life?
Why is our thinking so narrow in relation to other forms of life?
Who said that other life forms should be on a similar basis to those on Earth.
There may be life in a different style than we know, maybe even in our own solar system