Also, the planets are so close to each other that if you were standing on one, you would be able to see a wonderful, up-close look at the other planets.What has been discovered by NASA lately according to the passage? A. TRAPPIST-1. B. Seven exoplanets. C. A new dwarf star. D....
NASA’S Kepler space telescope has discovered many exoplanets this way.”(例如,当一颗系外行星在它的恒星和我们之间移动时,会导致恒星的亮度稍微下降。测量这种下降就是凌日发现法。美国航天总局的开普勒太空望远镜就是通过这种方法发现了很多系外行星。)可推知,科学家用间接方法去发现系外行星。A. Scientists ...
by Andrew Norton,The Conversation NASA astronomers working with data from theKepler space observatoryhave presented the largest single crop ofnewly discovered exoplanetsto date. It's impressive – 1,284 new planets have been announced, including around 550 which are of comparable size to the Earth....
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- A compact analogue of our inner solar system about 40 light years away has been discovered, the U.S. space station NASA announced at a press conference on Wednesday. "The discovery gives us a hint that finding a second earth is not just a matter of ...
Los Angeles; the University of Hawaii; theUniversity of Chicago; the University of Kansas; Indiana’s University of Notre Dame; Australia’s University of Southern Queensland; and Connecticut’sYale University. Funding was provided by the W.M. Keck Foundation,NASAand the National Science Foundation...
This is fine for planets of Earth's stature, but many of the rocky exoplanets being discovered by astronomers are much larger than Earth. These so-calledsuper-earthscan have masses up to 10 times that of our planet, but it hasn't been clear whether such worlds, with their more extreme in...
Scientists have verified in one sweep 1,284 new planets that werediscovered by NASA's...Shekhtman, Lonnie
In a study published on March 15, 2022, in theAstronomical Journal, MIT astronomers report that three, and potentially four, planets that were originally discovered byNASA’s Kepler Space Telescope are in fact misclassified. Instead, these suspected planets are likely small stars. ...
byUniversity of Cambridge This artist's concept depicts a planetary system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist. ...
An illustration of the TRAPPIST-1 system compared with the solar system.(Image credit: NASA/JPL Caltech) Located around 40 light-years from Earth, theTRAPPIST-1 systemcomprises seven planets orbiting a relatively coolred dwarfstar; the first two of these planets were discovered in 2016, and th...