six exoplanets discovered orbiting a Sun-like star driver sent
Six medium-sized planets orbiting a Sun-like star was discovered by the Kepler space telescope, Astronomers announced Wednesday, which they claim is the finding "most notable" held in exoplanet research for 14 years.
"is the most important thing that has happened in the field of exoplanets from the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet discovered in 1995," said Jack Lissauer, of the U.S. space agency NASA, in a telephone news conference organized by the British science journal Nature.
This new planetary system - "unexpected", according to astronomers - was discovered by Kepler, the NASA space telescope, around a star named Kepler-11 located 2,000 light years (1 light year = 9.46 billion km) from Earth.
"Kepler-11 really gives us much information on both planets themselves as on the planetary system," the expert from NASA.
Launched in 2009 by NASA's Kepler mission is to find Earth-like planets where life could have, noting more than 100,000 stars like the Sun
Five of the planets recently discovered are very close to its star and run over a full orbit in 10 to 47 days. Too hot, do not provide conditions conducive to life.
The sixth planet, located further away, completes its orbit in 118 days. continue reading
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