We have hundreds more planets outside our solar system – Gazeta Wyborcza

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"This is more than double the number of confirmed planets discovered by the Kepler telescope. This gives us hope that somewhere around a star similar to our end we find another Earth."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                          
 

                 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

         

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These are the words of Ellen Stofan during today's conference call NASA. He summed up the work of Kepler telescope, which since March 2009. Looking for planets outside our system. Telescope record even very low level differences starlight. The slight decrease in brilliance could mean that the shield celebrities walked the planet.

is recorded when "candidate on the planet," and you have yet to confirm the discovery. After analyzing the recent observational data with new statistical methods the number of newly discovered planets that are at least 99 percent. certainly increased in 1284 - is the largest so far announced the number of confirmed new discoveries. Known planets outside our system so we have more than twice so far - a total of 2 268.

Most of the discovered planets through a telescope Kepler has no equivalent in our solar system - said Dr. Timothy Horton of Princeton University. - Most of them are planets with a mass of 1.2 to 3.1 times greater than the earth (ie. Super-Earth). Among them was, however, one similar to our planet, dubbed "Earth 2.0" - which probably has an equally rocky structure. Among the newly discovered planets whose discovery was confirmed today, like the Earth is nine.

Kepler observed, however, only a small slice of heaven located between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, and the number of planets in our galaxy is much greater. Dr. Natalie Batalha of NASA Ames Research Center says that the calculations suggest that this is the number of tens of billions. It is estimated that one star is an average of one planet.

Planet Earth-like - such as scientists believe each weighing 1,6 masses of our planet or smaller - and potentially fit for living is less, but still a huge number. - The closest planet habitable is statistically no more than 11 light-years, which is very close - said dr. Batalha.

In the future, the Kepler space telescope will telescope James Webb, whose huge mirror will allow the observations of more distant than ever of stars and the direct observation of planets already discovered. With it, you will be able to analyze even the chemical composition of the planet's atmosphere and thus determine if it is suitable for life. Or is there already on it developed.

         

         

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