Kepler Mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has located a new exoplanet.
Posted on 08/14/2015 11:59:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
If there were life on the planet however, they would witness a sky much like the one shown on the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars film franchise with two blazing suns which orbit each other every 27 days. Kepler-453b is the tenth example of a planet orbiting a binary star system that Kepler has found...
Most appear to sport large planets many times the mass of Earth close to their stars, whereas in our solar system the small rocky planets are in the inner regions, while the larger gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are scattered much further out. The largest sun is about 94 percent the size of our sun, and the smallest is only 20 percent the size of our Sunday. It orbits the two stars every 240 days...
The discovery, which will be announced at the 29th worldwide Astronomical Union General Assembly in Honolulu on August 14, is hailed as an important milestone as it brings the number of circumbinary planets to double digits. Kepler-453b is a gas giant, with a mass estimated to be under 16 times that of the Earth...
In one year, the planet orbits two stars. These planets so far are proving to be more common than previously thought, as scientists suspect more may soon be found...
The search for planets that could support Earth-like life forms is heating up and now a pair of researchers are claiming to have identified a new way to speed up the process. The “habitable zone” is the area around stars in which life could potentially exist.
The ten detected circumbinary exoplanets offer some variety in their configurations while tending to be compact systems overall.
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Kepler Mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has located a new exoplanet.
I just park my ass and let the search engine find it. ;’)
But is there a sleazy bar with a good jazz band?
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At last. We have located the place that is furthest from the bright center of the universe!
There is, it’s called Jabba’s Hut; there’s this wild ex-jedi chick who’ll do it with anyone.
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