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Kepler telescope discovers 715 new planets
Topic Started: Feb 26 2014, 09:21 PM (256 Views)
CJ
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26362433

The science team sifting data from Nasa's Kepler space telescope says it has identified 715 new planets beyond our Solar System.

This is a huge new haul.

In the nearly two decades since the first so-called exoplanet was first discovered, researchers had claimed the detection of just over 1,000 new worlds.

Kepler's latest bounty orbit only 305 stars, meaning many are in multi-planet systems.

The vast majority, 95%, are smaller than our Neptune, which is four times the size of the Earth.



What isn't made explicitly specific here is, are these 715 planets confirmed, or just candidates? If it's the former, it would almost double the number of planets known to exist outside the Solar System!
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So where's the aliens? :D?
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Out of those 715 planets, they're on planet #537. I don't think they're very talkative, though; they were all hiding underneath the surface :( .
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So since these planets are so far away when they discovered them they were seeing them from like thousands of years in the past.
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Well, it sounds as though they've been confirmed, so I'll just go ahead and assume that's the case. :P That's nice though, there are a lot of planets.
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rmnldr
Feb 27 2014, 01:51 AM
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So since these planets are so far away when they discovered them they were seeing them from like thousands of years in the past.
That too :P . If they've become any more interested in us, they might be watching us build the Pyramids right now, and thinking the same about us :P .

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Well, it sounds as though they've been confirmed, so I'll just go ahead and assume that's the case. :P That's nice though, there are a lot of planets.
If they are confirmed, it's likely that they were 'discovered' earlier - and I may even have already reported it :P . I have reported several stories about Kepler before.
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