Uncovered 5 planets in six weeks, incredible results! The Kepler space telescope, launched March 7, 2009 is bearing fruits of those who worked hard in its design and implementation. "This result shows that the tools work Kepler" noted the principal investigator of the mission, William Borucki of NASA Ames Research Center.
The five planets are all such gas giant, one of them is the size of Neptune, while others are of similar size to that of Kepler were baptized Giove.Sono 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b and 8b. Of course
planets of this kind can not in any way even remotely host life.
The characteristics that are common to all gaseous extrasolar planets (except ours) are many: the orbit very close to the sun and crushed, resulting in a high temperature, over boiling lava.
not underestimate their large size, can be wrapped dozens of times those of our gas planets.
For more information on the news:
http://www.newnotizie.it/2010/01/06/il-super-occhio-del-telescopio-keplero-scopre-5-nuovi-pianeti/
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