27-02-2014, 11:36 AM
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Kepler telescope team announce 715 new planets
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Originally Posted by BBC
The science team sifting data from the US space agency's (Nasa) Keplertelescope says it has identified 715 new planets beyond our Solar System.
This is a huge new haul.
In the nearly two decades since the first so-called exoplanet was discovered, researchers had claimed the detection of just over 1,000 new worlds.
Kepler's latest bounty orbit only 305 stars, meaning they are all in multi-planet systems.
The vast majority, 95%, are smaller than our Neptune, which is four times the radius of the Earth.
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Article here -
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26362433
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Originally Posted by Washington Post
“We’ve almost doubled today the number of planets known to humanity,” said Jack Lissauer, a NASA planetary scientist, announcing the discovery during a teleconference Wednesday with reporters. The findings will be published in March in two scientific papers in the Astrophysical Journal.
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Article here -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...08b_story.html
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Originally Posted by Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American
Among the new trove of planets: a small, potentially rocky world; an odd binary star system where each star has planets of its own; and cramped systems where the multiple planets are each gravitationally tugging one another around. "Of course we have every type of planetary system in our validated set that people can think of, except the perfect Earth analogue," Rowe says. For now, that remains Kepler's holy grail.
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Article here -
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...lanet-systems/
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