Sentences with phrase «habitable planet frequency»

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Kepler's goal is to determine the frequency of Earth - size planets in the habitable zones of stars; the news stirred hope that habitable planets are common throughout the galaxy.

Two distinct sets of transit events were detected: 1) a 152 + / - 4 ppm dimming lasting 1.811 + / - 0.024 hours with ephemeris T [BJD] = 2454964.57375 + N... ▽ More NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of earth - size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun - like stars.

Assuming that the frequency of observed habitable zone planets really is a result of stellar age, this begs the question of whether the planets currently observed in the habitable zone really formed there or whether they were brought into it as their star evolved.

Adibekyan and collaborators set out to find how the frequency of small, rocky planets in the habitable zone is affected by the composition of the host star.