Astronomy
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- Space Hunt For New Earths
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- A Step Closer To Earth-like Planets
Earth- like planets with life-sustaining conditions are spining around stars in the galaxy of our neighbourhood but they have not been found yet, told by US astrophysics. There are few dozen solar-type stars whih are 30 light years of the sun- half of...
- Kepler Discovers New Planetary System And Announces Over 1200 Planet Candidates
The Kepler spacecraft started doing its work in May 2009, continuously watching the stars contained in a patch of sky with the hope of being able to discover exoplanets. Just recently, the Kepler team had a very exciting set of announcements resulting...
- Kepler: Finding Earth-size And Smaller Extrasolar Planets
Tonight, March 6, a Delta II rocket lifted off from the launch pad at NASA's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United States. Onboard is a very special payload, Kepler. Kepler's mission is to try to reach the ages old goal of trying...
- Most Earth Like Worlds Have Yet To Be Born.
According to a new theoretical study, Earth came early to the party in evolving universe. When our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago, only 8 percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed, which means 92...
Astronomy
NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovers eight new Earth-like planets
The search for Earth-like planets has moved a step further. Astronomers have discovered eight new planets orbiting in the habitable zone called ?Goldilocks zone? of their host stars.
The discovery of the eight new planets has been made by astronomers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (CfA). According to them, two [Kepler-438b and Kepler-442b] out of eight planets are most similar to Earth.
The findings were revealed at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Kepler-438b is circling its star at a distance of 470 light years from Earth. The other, Kepler-442b, is 1,100 light years away.Kepler-438b has a diameter that is 12 percent bigger than Earth.Kepler-442b is about a third larger than Earth.
?We don't know for sure whether any of the planets in our sample are truly habitable or not, all we can say is that they're promising candidates? author David Kipping of the CfA said in a release.
source:- zee news.
- Space Hunt For New Earths
...
- A Step Closer To Earth-like Planets
Earth- like planets with life-sustaining conditions are spining around stars in the galaxy of our neighbourhood but they have not been found yet, told by US astrophysics. There are few dozen solar-type stars whih are 30 light years of the sun- half of...
- Kepler Discovers New Planetary System And Announces Over 1200 Planet Candidates
The Kepler spacecraft started doing its work in May 2009, continuously watching the stars contained in a patch of sky with the hope of being able to discover exoplanets. Just recently, the Kepler team had a very exciting set of announcements resulting...
- Kepler: Finding Earth-size And Smaller Extrasolar Planets
Tonight, March 6, a Delta II rocket lifted off from the launch pad at NASA's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United States. Onboard is a very special payload, Kepler. Kepler's mission is to try to reach the ages old goal of trying...
- Most Earth Like Worlds Have Yet To Be Born.
According to a new theoretical study, Earth came early to the party in evolving universe. When our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago, only 8 percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed, which means 92...