NASA’s Kepler discovers new exoplanets
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 12:31:26 by Ahmad Mehdi
NASA’s Kepler discovers new exoplanets
NASA´s Kepler space telescope has discovered 41 new exoplanets in 20 distant star systems. They up the total number to 116 planets in 67 systems.
The new transiting planets range from Earth-size to more than seven times the radius of Earth, but are too close to stars to be habitable.
"These systems […] give us important clues about how planetary systems form and evolve. This information helps us understand how our own solar system fits into the population of all planetary systems," lead author Jason Steffen said.
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Posted by Ahmad Mehdi
on Aug 28 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech.
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