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NASA Discovers A New Solar System.
The Kepler Space Telescope has been floating around space since 2009 on it’s search to find other planets. The Kepler team announced the discovery of a group of five planets that circle around a red star.
Two of the planets can support life. This solar system in 1,200 light years away.
“Imagine looking through a telescope to see another world with life just a few million miles from your own, or having the capability to travel between them on regular basis,” Kepler team member Dimitar Sasselov of Harvard told New Scientist. “I can’t think of a more powerful motivation to become a space-faring society.”
According to the Atlantic, while scientists have found that our galaxy is teeming with planets, it takes longer to detect planets that take a long time to orbit their suns.
That’s because Kepler detects planets when they pass in front of their stars. If a planet takes a couple hundred Earth-days to go around its sun, the scientists need several years to gather several transits, as they’re known.
Imagine if astronauts were able to go inside of a planet’s atmosphere. That would be very exciting.
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The Kepler Space Telescope has been floating around space since 2009 on it’s search to find other planets. The Kepler team announced the discovery of a group of five planets that circle around a red star.
Two of the planets can support life. This solar system in 1,200 light years away.
“Imagine looking through a telescope to see another world with life just a few million miles from your own, or having the capability to travel between them on regular basis,” Kepler team member Dimitar Sasselov of Harvard told New Scientist. “I can’t think of a more powerful motivation to become a space-faring society.”
According to the Atlantic, while scientists have found that our galaxy is teeming with planets, it takes longer to detect planets that take a long time to orbit their suns.
That’s because Kepler detects planets when they pass in front of their stars. If a planet takes a couple hundred Earth-days to go around its sun, the scientists need several years to gather several transits, as they’re known.
Imagine if astronauts were able to go inside of a planet’s atmosphere. That would be very exciting.
