Kepler Error Means Possible End To High-Accuracy Observations
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online NASA announced on Wednesday that its Kepler spacecraft was sitting in safe mode once again, possibly putting an end to its high-accuracy observations. Kepler went into a...
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun's "habitable zone," the region in the planetary system where liquid water might exist on the surface of a planet. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Based on observations conducted from May 2009 to March 2011, the findings show a...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists have found one particular planetary system that crams five planets into a region less than one twelfth the size of the Earth's orbit. Dr. Darin Ragozzine, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida, reported the team's findings of KOI-500 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences. The planetary system is about 1,100 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, also called...
