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NASA Announces Discovery of 1,284 New Exoplanets, 9 in “Goldilocks Zone”
By 2016.05.10 0 Comments Read More →

NASA Announces Discovery of 1,284 New Exoplanets, 9 in “Goldilocks Zone”

NASA held a teleconference today to announce the confirmed discovery of 1,284 new planets as part of the Kepler Space Telescope’s primary mission. The new batch of planets, the largest found at any one time, bring the total number of new planets discovered by Kepler to 2.325. Of particular interest, the new batch includes 550 […]

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Potentially Habitable Planets Hiding Around Ultra-Cool Dwarf Stars
By 2016.05.03 1 Comments Read More →

Potentially Habitable Planets Hiding Around Ultra-Cool Dwarf Stars

From the ESO: Astronomers using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory have discovered three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth. These worlds have sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth and are the best targets found so far for the search for life outside the […]

Posted in: European Southern Observatory, Exo Planets
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