{"id":1396,"date":"2011-08-09T16:19:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T23:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2016-02-29T02:40:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:40:25","slug":"universe-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/universe-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Universe Maps (inspire look for our nearest non-solar planet)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Map:<\/a>

Map: Our Sun from 5,000 Light Years Away<\/p><\/div>Here’s a very good set of maps of our Universe. It starts with maps of our solar system, then, in steps, it covers larger and larger volumes of space.<\/p>\n

Here you go — “Map of Our Universe”<\/a><\/p>\n

I found one fun idea right away: There are about 30 stars in our neighborhood (depending on how you define our neighborhood)<\/a>. This is pretty much the set of stars that our species could someday possibly visit – or some (one?) from them could visit us ;-)<\/p>\n

(If I were influencing the SETI program<\/a>, I’d concentrate on listening to these stars, but then maybe they do that already. Since a big chunk of them are binary stars, I wonder if any of the rest might have planets ? )<\/p>\n

Answer: “Eridani (tenth closest star to Earth) is the closest star known to have a planet, Epsilon Eridani b<\/a>. It is the third closest star that we can see without a telescope.”

\"Epsilon

Epsilon Eridani b - nearest Planet beyond our Solar System<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that planet is uninhabitable due to excessive gravity, as it is larger than Jupiter. However that star system may have smaller planets that we haven’t found yet.<\/p>\n

have fun,
\n-David
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