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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88bF6Dho5M8&t=1611s
1. “We’re searching for own vision of ourselves out there in space, we’re searching for our
_____________.
2. “Boy were we wrong..... we’re the odd ball, we’re the ____________.
3. We are currently discovering exoplanets at a rate of one per ________.
4. The Spitzer Space telescope sees in _____________ light. This allows it to see weather on a
giant Jupiter-like exoplanet that is due to super-hurricane force winds with a non-stop speed of
____ thousand miles per hour, 20 times stronger than the strongest winds on Earth.
5. WASP-12b is one of the hottest planets ever observed and it orbits its star in one ______.
6. Gas giants orbiting close to their stars shouldn’t be there according the theory of where gas
giants form, in the cold regions of solar systems. This shows that planets _______.
7. WASP-12b is hot and rich in carbon. On its surface there may be mountains of graphite and
____________ and seas of molten _____.
8. Trillions of miles from a star it’s cold enough for _____ to form.
9. These hot close orbiting giant planets are called hot ____________.
10. When planet hunter telescopes switched from looking at stars to deep space, they found dark
star-less ___________.
11. There may be hundreds of ___________ of orphaned planets wandering through space.
12. “Planets from hell” also include rocky planets. Exoplanet corot-7b it’s so close in to its star
that it looms ______ times larger in the sky than our Sun. The surface that constantly faces its
star is a furnace roasting at a temperature of _______ degrees. The far side of the planet has a
temperature of several _________ degrees below zero. This rocky planet started its life quite
differently, as a _____ __________.
13. The first exoplanets discovered were three sterile planets orbiting a stellar remnant known as
a _____________, its radiation cooking the planets to death.
14. In the constellation Scorpius 20,000 light years away can be found the coldest planet we have
found in the universe. The planet orbits far from a small red dwarf star, taking ____ years to
circle it once.
15. Journalists say “follow the money”, while astronomers say “follow the _________”.
16. Astronomers are looking for planets that lie in the habitable zone of their parent stars. So far
Kepler ________ found a single confirmed Earth twin.
17. There are likely ___ billion stars in our own galaxy, with maybe ___ % in the habitable zone.
Explanation / Answer
1. Aliens
2. solar system
3. a week
4.. Infrared
5. 1.091423 ± 3e-6 days
6. The gas giants must form early than their stars and are bigger than their stars.
7. Diamond, lava
8. Black dwarfs and Black holes
9. jupiters
10. solar systems
11. stars
12. 1.5 times, 2500 deg celsius, star]
13. hot ice
14. 13 light years
15. water
16. 22b
17. 400, 10
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