18. What is the name of the planet?A. Kepler-21b.B. Kepler-22a.C. Kepler-22b.19. How long is the planet's year?A. About 41 weeks.B. About 52 weeks.C. About 55 weeks.20. What can we learn from the text?A. T he planet is made mostly of rock and gaS.B. T he planet ...
2. The following picture is from NASA 3, which shows the Goldilocks Zone around Earth and an extrasolar planet known as Kepler 22b. As you can see from the image, both Mars and Earth are in the zone, but life as we know it only exists on Earth. Venus misses out on being in the...
Kepler 22b (Believed to have Earth-like atmosphere in the constellation Cygnus) - 30,000 kmNeptune - 50,000 kmUranus - 51,000 kmSaturn - 120,000 kmJupiter - 140,000 kmProxima Centauri (one of the three stars of closest star system, Alpha Centauri) - 200,000 kmThe Sun - 1,400,000...
In 2011, the planet Kepler-22b was discovered 600 light years from Earth and in the habitable zone of its star. But the reality is that finding life in such remote locations is going to be hugely more difficult than in the cosmic backyard of our solar system....
Johnson, Michele (20 December 2011). “NASA Discovers First Earth Size Planets Beyond our Solar System”. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-20-system.html. Retrieved 2011-12-20. "Kepler-22b, Super-Earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star". Kepler – NASA.gov. 5 Decem...
8 habitable-world-sampler early in december, astronomers confirmed the existence of the first known world beyond the solar system that exists in a cozy, habitable zone around its sun-like star. it’s too soon to say whether the planet, called kepler-22b , has a rocky, watery or gassy ...