Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $33,557
41%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 41%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: k2239

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Researchers discover a system with three Earth-sized planets

    06/08/2018 9:54:31 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    phys.org ^ | June 8, 2018 | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
    Credit: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias __________________________________________________________________________ The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo present today the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three planets the same size as the Earth. The information about these new exoplanets has been obtained from the data collected by the K2 mission of NASA's Kepler satellite, which started in November 2013. The work, which will be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), reveals the existence of two new planetary systems detected from the eclipses they produce in the stellar...