Sentences with phrase «new planet candidates»
NASA's Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near - Earth size and in the habitable zone of their star.
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Nearly five thousand periodic transit - like signals are vetted against astrophysical and instrumental false positives yielding 1,091 viable new planet candidates, bringing the total count up to over 2,300.
Twelve of the new planet candidates have diameters between one to two times that of Earth, and orbit in their star's habitable zone.
«This new problem Kepler created is that we now have thousands of new planet candidates.
At the press conference, which marked the start of the 5 - day First Kepler Science Conference here at NASA Ames, Batalha also announced 1094 new planet candidates found by Kepler since February 2011, bringing the total to a whopping 2326.
Not exact matches
Added to Kepler's previous discoveries, the 10 new Earthlike planet candidates make 49 total, Thompson said.
NEW YORK (TheStreet)-- In last week's acceptance speech, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney held out this challenge: «President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet.
NASA came under criticism in June when it announced that its space - based telescope Kepler had detected 706 potential new exoplanets, but only released data for 306 of the candidate planets.
At a NASA press conference today that also unveiled more than 500 other new candidate planets, Kepler's mission scientists announced they have finally found and confirmed what looks to be the mission's long - sought holy grail, a near - twin of Earth called Kepler 452 b.
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.
Sifting through Kepler data, astronomers have discovered 130 new extrasolar planets and identified hundreds of planetary candidates, showing that the universe is teeming with planets.
«Thousands of planet candidates have been seen to transit in only optical light,» said Katja Poppenhaeger of Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass., who led a new study to be published in the Aug. 10 edition of The Astrophysical Journal.
«We've now developed a process to verify multiple planet candidates in bulk to deliver planets wholesale, and have used it to unveil a veritable bonanza of new worlds.»
The data on the numerous candidates are somewhat preliminary and require validation, but a new analysis by a pair of astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology suggests that the percentage of false positives among Kepler's candidate planets may be less than 10 percent.
«We've been able to fully automate our process of identifying planet candidates, which means we can finally assess every transit signal in the entire Kepler dataset quickly and uniformly,» said Jeff Coughlin, Kepler scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, who led the analysis of a new candidate catalog.
From the combined Kepler planet candidates, 472 are new from the Q1 - Q8 data examined in this study.
Transit signals detected in 2013 observations indicate that planetary candidate c could be an Earth - sized planet with a year lasting no more than 20.4 days, putting it slightly further out than Bb but still scorchingly close to the star (Demory et al, 2015; and Jacob Aron, New Scientist, March 27, 2015).
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.»
With respect to the cumulative Kepler Object of Interest (KOI) catalog, we designate 1,478 new KOIs, of which 402 are dispositioned as planet candidates (PCs).
Abstract: New transiting planet candidates are identified in sixteen months (May 2009 - September 2010) of data from the Kepler spacecraft.
NASA notes that 833 new candidate planets were discovered, 10 of which are less than twice the size of Earth and are in the habitable zone.
Abstract: With each new version of the Kepler pipeline and resulting planet candidate catalogue, an updated measurement of the underlying planet population can only be recovered with an corresponding measurement of the Kepler pipeline detection efficiency.
Improved vetting metrics are employed, contributing to higher cat... ▽ More New transiting planet candidates are identified in sixteen months (May 2009 - September 2010) of data from the Kepler spacecraft.
Combining the new and previous KOI samples, we provide updated parameters for 2,738 Kepler planet candidates distributed across 2,017 host stars.
The blue dots show planet candidates from previous Kepler results, while the yellow dots show new candidates the latest data.
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.
The site is designed for rapidly identifying planet candidates especially with the new two - wheeled ecliptic planet Kepler mission...
The results include new asteroseismic solutions for four host stars with confirmed planets (Kepler - 4, Kepler - 14, Kepler - 23 and Kepler - 25) and increase the total number of Kepler host stars with asteroseismic solutions... ▽ More We have used asteroseismology to determine fundamental properties for 66 Kepler planet - candidate host stars, with typical uncertainties of 3 % and 7 % in radius and mass, respectively.
On January 26, 2012, scientists working on NASA's Kepler Mission team announced the discovery of 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets, as well as additional planetary candidates.
On December 5, 2011, on the opening of its inaugural science conference at NASA's Ames Research Center, the Kepler Mission team announced 1,094 new planetary candidates, bringing the running total of potential planet discoveries to 2,326.
«We have shown that one of the leading candidates for geoengineering could cause a new unintended side - effect over a large part of the planet,» said Dr Andrew Charlton - Perez, one of the co-authors of the paper.