Kepler Telescope Finds Plethora of Earth-Sized PlanetsClara Moskowitz
What’s more, Kepler-10c orbits a star about 560 light-years away in a solar system that is 11 billion years old, indicating that the planet may have formed less than 3 billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe contained mostly hydrogen and helium. The heavier elements, like si...
"We only know of one star that hosts a planet with life, the Sun. Finding a planet in the habitable zone around a star like our sun is a significant milestone toward finding truly Earth-like planets," said Thomas Barclay, Kepler scientist at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. A...
BOULDER, Colorado - The hunt forEarth-likeworlds orbiting distant suns will get a big boost next year with theliftoff of NASA's Kepler mission. That spacecraft's job isto monitor 100,000 stars in a stellar staring contest intended todetect periodic decreases in a star's brightness--a fall...
Kepler-186f's parent star is a red dwarf, so the alien world is not a true Earth twin. The planet lies about 500 light-years from Earth. Related:What would it be like to live on alien planet Kepler-186f? 6. Kepler-442b Kepler-442b is 33 percent larger than Earth and completes an...
a year on kepler-438b is only 35 days while a year on kepler-442b is 112 days. meanwhile, astronomers have sifted through more data from the planet-hunting kepler space telescope and found 554 more objects that could be planets. kepler has now found a total of more than 4,000 planet ...
"Kepler's one goal is to answer a question that people have been asking since the days of Aristotle: What fraction of stars like the sun have an Earth-like planet?" Howard said. "We're not there yet, but Kepler has found enough planets that we can make statistical estimates."...
Stellar rotation periods of the Kepler objects of interest: a dearth of close-in planets around fast rotators. Astrophys. J. Lett. 775, L11 (2013). Article ADS Google Scholar Benneke, B. Strict upper limits on the carbon-to-oxygen ratios of eight hot Jupiters from self-consistent ...
NASA's Kepler Mission Set For Launch NASA's Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft launch aboard a Delta II rocket has two windows of opportuni...
E. Gerlach would like to acknowledge the financial support from the DFG research unit FOR584. A. Reiners acknowledges research funding from DFG grant RE1664/9-1. S. Vogt gratefully acknowledges support from NFS grant AST-0307493. This work is based on data obtained from the ESO Science ...