Kepler uncovers planetary menagerie
Today NASA's Kepler mission announced the discovery of 26 new planets (above, green). The new worlds, comparable to the giant planets of our solar system (blue), nearly double the number of planets previously discovered by the probe (red), but it's probably only a small taste of what's to come. Kepler looks at 150,000 distant stars and searches for tiny changes in brightness as a planet passes by. So far, the probe has turned up 2,300 planet candidates. Confirming a planet is far more difficult, but Kepler has managed to verify the new worlds announced today by measuring slight changes in … Read more
Kepler uncovers planetary menagerie
Today NASA's Kepler mission announced the discovery of 26 new planets (above, green). The new worlds, comparable to the giant planets of our solar system (blue), nearly double the number of ...
Fri 27 Jan 12 from Nature News Blogs
Kepler team finds 11 new solar systems
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems.
Thu 26 Jan 12 from ABC Science
Kepler telescope team finds 11 new solar systems
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star ...
Fri 27 Jan 12 from Reuters
Nasa's Kepler telescope discovers 11 new planetary systems
Nasa's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists ...
Fri 27 Jan 12 from Telegraph.co.uk Science
Nasa's Keplar telescope discovers 11 new planetary systems, Fri 27 Jan 12 from Telegraph.co.uk Science
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