Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Four rocky planets around one star? Kepler's new finds intrigue scientists

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has pulled in the largest crop of confirmed exoplanets ever found by the K2 mission – a triple-digit trove that includes a star system with four small planets that may be rocky, like Earth.

The 104 worlds, described in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, bolster...



via L.A. Times - Science http://ift.tt/29RBsnW

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