Sentences with phrase «kepler planet discovery»

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Not exact matches

Added to Kepler's previous discoveries, the 10 new Earthlike planet candidates make 49 total, Thompson said.

While just 49 of Kepler's thousands of planet candidates are Earth - size and in a habitable zone, the discovery has rocked the scientific world: This could mean billions of such worlds exist in the Milky Way galaxy alone.

Though hobbled by age, NASA's Kepler planet - hunting telescope is proving to be an almost inexhaustible engine of discovery.

Its discovery proved that the Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in March 2009, could indeed do what its designers had boldly promised: find small, Earth - size planets around distant stars, a task that once seemed so difficult as to border on the absurd.

The most intriguing discovery from Kepler is that 53 of those 1,200 - odd planets dwell in the life - friendly «Goldilocks» zones of their stars, regions where temperatures would be just right — not too cold and not too hot — for liquid water.

Theoretical physicist Richard Obousy can easily imagine how the discovery might unfold: A successor mission to Kepler locates a planet that resembles our own in size and temperature.

In January Kepler astronomers announced the discovery of the first definitively rocky planet outside our solar system, Kepler - 10 b.

Such «transits» are how Kepler found the vast majority of its planets; but many things besides planets can cause stars to slightly dim, leading to far more false alarms than discoveries of new worlds.

Kepler 10b: Kepler's Calling Card Announced in January 2011, Kepler 10b was the mission's first discovery of a small, rocky planet, proof of the Kepler telescope's planet - hunting prowess.

By next spring, the planet - hunting space telescope known as Kepler — rejected by NASA three times but then approved after those initial detections of exoplanets in the 1990s — will most likely report the discovery of the first known Earth - like planet in an Earth - like orbit.

Kepler in the 16th century justified his shattering empirical discovery that planetary motion was ellipitcal rather than circular by the essentially medieval and mystical belief that the circle represented the spiritual and the straight line the material, so the combination of the two in an ellipse showed the planets «striving to reach the divine ideal».

Last December astron omers excitedly announced the discovery of a planet called Kepler 22b.

The discovery of Kepler 452b was announced today along with the latest edition of Kepler's catalog of exoplanet candidates, adding 500 new possible planets for a total of 4175.

Intrigued by this surprising discovery, researchers concluded that the light - absorbing gaseous form of titanium oxide has been removed from the dayside of planet Kepler - 13Ab's atmosphere.

The researchers» discovery hinges on a technique developed at Princeton that allows scientists to efficiently analyze thousands of signals Kepler has identified to determine which are most likely to be caused by planets and which are caused by non-planetary objects such as stars.

The discovery, announced today at a COROT symposium in Paris, is good news for NASA's Kepler mission, which will hunt for Earth - like planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars.

Kepler - 452b This world, whose discovery was announced last month, is the most Earth - like planet found so far, NASA officials say.

NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets.

«Now with the Kepler 11 system we have five more of these intermediate - mass planets to add to the three from previous exoplanet discoveries.

The other discovery, Kepler - 90i, is the eighth planet in its system.

Like the new discovery, Kepler - 62f is a «super Earth,» about 40 percent larger than our home planet.

The discovery of Kepler - 186f confirms that Earth - size planets exist in the habitable zone of other stars and signals a significant step closer to finding a world similar to Earth.

The new discovery, Kepler - 452b, fires the planet hunter's imagination because it is the most similar to the Earth - sun system found yet: a planet at the right temperature within the habitable zone, and only about one - and - a-half times the diameter of Earth, circling a star very much like our own sun.

The Kepler Space Telescope is famous for its discoveries of extra-solar planets, some that may have the right conditions to harbor life.

The Kepler space telescope is famous for its discoveries of extrasolar planets, some that may have the right conditions to harbor life.

Based on the incredible discoveries of Kepler, researchers hope that TESS will find thousands of new planets, this time in our celestial backyard.

Although these Kepler results were supposed to remain secret until February 2011, Sasselov has given the world an unofficial glimpse into the possible discovery of Earth - like extra-solar planets.

The initial discovery, made by the Kepler Space Telescope, is one of a handful of smaller planets found by Kepler and verified using large ground - based telescopes.

Before the discovery of these eight exoplanets, the planets Kepler had identified that were most similar to Earth were 186f and 62f, but 438b and 442b — 470 light years and 1,100 light years away respectively — surpass these to become the most Earth - like planets of any discovered to date.

But Kepler has difficulty identifying smaller planets because the stars that it examines tend to be extremely faint, which makes it very difficult to confirm discoveries with ground - based telescopes.

NASA Kepler mission team members announced the discovery of 715 new planets.

This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets were originally made by NASA's Kepler space telescopes and mark another milestone in the journey to finding another «Earth.»

Kepler has made thousands of likely exoplanet discoveries, but in order for each planet to be considered «confirmed», its existence has to be verified using other instruments, a process that takes time.

TESS will target areas of the sky where new planets will likely be easier to spot than those studied by the venerable Kepler Space Telescope, giving observatories on the ground a better chance of confirming the discovery of new exoplanets.

Here we report the discovery of three small planets orbiting a bright (Ks = 8.6 mag) M0 dwarf using data collected as part of K2, the new transit survey using the re-purposed Kepler spacecraft.

Using the very high precision Kepler photometry, and follow - up observations, our confidence that these signals re... ▽ More We present the discovery of a super-earth-sized planet in or near the habitable zone of a sun - like star.

The planet's inflated radius and... ▽ More We report the discovery of planet Kepler - 12b (KOI - 20), which at 1.695 \ pm0.030 RJ is among the handful of planets with super-inflated radii above 1.65 RJ.

We have demonstrated the success of utilizing citizen science, with the discovery of four unknown planet candidates not previously identified by the Kepler team.

Furthermore, we report the discovery of an additional non-transiting planet with a minimum mass of 19.96 +3.08 - 3.61 MEarth and an orbital period of ~ 34 days in the gap between Kepler - 20f (P ~ 11 days) and Kepler - 20d (P ~ 78 days).

We present the discovery of Kepler - 421b, a Uranus - sized exoplanet transiting a G9 / K0 dw... ▽ More In most theories of planet formation, the snow - line represents a boundary between the emergence of the interior rocky planets and the exterior ice giants.

«On the 20th anniversary year of the discovery that proved other suns host planets, the Kepler exoplanet explorer has discovered a planet and star which most closely resemble the Earth and our Sun,» John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, is quoted as saying.

Today, the Kepler space telescope team announced its latest list of discoveries, a total of 219 new candidate exoplanets, ten of which are rocky planets in the so - called habitable zone.

Abstract: We report the discovery and confirmation of Kepler - 7b, a transiting planet with unusually low density.

The planet has a radius RP = 1.419 RJ and a mass, MP = 0.60 MJ, yielding a density of 0.26 g cm ^ -3, among the lowest density planets known... ▽ More We report the discovery and the Rossiter - McLaughlin effect of Kepler - 8b, a transiting planet identified by the NASA Kepler Mission.

These observations, from Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, confirm that numerous Kepler discoveries are indeed planets and yield mass measurements of these enigmatic worlds that vary between Earth and Neptune in size.

Here we apply the light - curve modeling tech... ▽ More The Kepler Mission has recently announced the discovery of Kepler - 10 b, the smallest exoplanet discovered to date and the first rocky planet found by the spacecraft.

The mission reached a milestone toward meeting that goal: the discovery of its first rocky planet, Kepler - 10b.

Abstract: We report the discovery and the Rossiter - McLaughlin effect of Kepler - 8b, a transiting planet identified by the NASA Kepler Mission.

Stern said the spate of discoveries from NASA's Kepler mission, including the first known gas dwarf planets, illustrates the «amazing diversity» of planets in the universe.