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Intelligent Design: Each Planet Has Been Placed Precisely in the Solar System

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A video explained that would happen to Earth and its inhabitants if all the planets in the Solar System suddenly disappeared. If this happened, all life on Earth would cease to exist.

The grim topic was covered in a video released by the YouTube channel What if. It illustrated how Earth will be drastically affected if a couple or all of the planets suddenly disappeared from the Solar System.

As explained in the video, the positioning of each planet in the systems has a special purpose. Through the gravitational forces of the different planets, they have been arranged in a way that they can orbit the Sun without hitting one another.

“Take the placement of every single planet,” the narrator of the video explained. “They all have their own little space in the galaxy and that’s not by accident. Our planets work together to keep each other in place.”

However, if all of the planets or even just a few of them suddenly disappeared, the arrangement or positioning of the planets in relation to the Sun would change dramatically. Depending on which planet disappears, Earth could either move away from or closer to the Sun. (Read more from “Intelligent Design: Each Planet Has Been Placed Precisely in the Solar System” HERE)

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Water Detected on Potentially ‘Habitable’ Exoplanet for First Time, Scientists Say

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Scientists have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a “super-Earth” exoplanet with potentially habitable temperatures. The discovery, which is being touted as a milestone, could have major implications in the search for life outside the solar system.

Experts from University College London identified water vapor in the atmosphere of K2-18b, which is 110 light-years from Earth. A light-year, which measures distance in space, equals a little less than 6 trillion miles.

“K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the solar system, or ‘exoplanet,’ known to have both water and temperatures that could support life,” researchers said in a statement. . .

“Finding water in a potentially habitable world other than Earth is incredibly exciting. K2-18b is not ‘Earth 2.0,’ as it is significantly heavier and has a different atmospheric composition,” said lead author Angelos Tsiaras, Ph.D. of UCL’s Center for Space Exochemistry Data, in the statement. “However, it brings us closer to answering the fundamental question: Is the Earth unique?” . . .

Data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2016 and 2017 was used to study starlight filtered through the exoplanet’s atmosphere. “The results revealed the molecular signature of water vapor, also indicating the presence of hydrogen and helium in the planet’s atmosphere,” UCL said in its statement. (Read more from “Water Detected on Potentially ‘Habitable’ Exoplanet for First Time, Scientists Say” HERE)

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Largest Solar System Ever Discovered Dwarfs Our Own

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Photo Credit: University of Hertfordshire/Neil CookA huge alien world orbits 600 billion miles (1 trillion kilometers) from its host star, making its solar system the largest one known, a new study reports.

Astronomers have found the parent star for a gas-giant exoplanet named 2MASS J2126, which was previously thought to be a “rogue” world flying freely through space. The planet and its star are separated by about 7,000 astronomical units (AU), meaning the alien world completes one orbit every 900,000 years or so, researchers said. (One AU is the average distance from Earth to the sun — about 93 million miles, or 150 million km).

For comparison, Neptune lies about 30 AU from the sun, Pluto averages about 40 AU from Earth’s star and scientists think the newly hypothesized “Planet Nine” never gets more than 600 to 1,200 AU away from the sun.

“The planet is not quite as lonely as we first thought, but it’s certainly in a very long-distance relationship,” study lead author Niall Deacon, of the University of Hertfordshire in England, said in a statement . . .

Deacon and his colleagues analyzed databases of rogue planets, young stars and brown dwarfs— strange objects bigger than planets, but too small to ignite the internal fusion reactions that power stars — to see if they could link any of them together. (Read more from “Largest Solar System Ever Discovered Dwarfs Our Own” HERE)

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