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posted by CoolHand on Thursday June 22 2017, @03:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the new-vacay-home dept.

The Kepler space telescope has found 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are "Earth-like":

NASA's Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting in their star's habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of a rocky planet.

This is the most comprehensive and detailed catalog release of candidate exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system, from Kepler's first four years of data. It's also the final catalog from the spacecraft's view of the patch of sky in the Cygnus constellation.

With the release of this catalog, derived from data publicly available on the NASA Exoplanet Archive, there are now 4,034 planet candidates identified by Kepler. Of which, 2,335 have been verified as exoplanets. Of roughly 50 near-Earth size habitable zone candidates detected by Kepler, more than 30 have been verified.

Also at Space.com, New Scientist, and CNN.

Previously: Kepler Exoplanet Results Briefing on June 19th, Conference From 19th-23rd


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 22 2017, @10:43PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday June 22 2017, @10:43PM (#529690) Journal

    It's in the summary.

    It means these worlds will be suspiciously scorched when we look at them.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday July 05 2017, @06:17PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 05 2017, @06:17PM (#535317) Journal

    If our looking at them causes them to be scorched, then we should look at them through instruments instead of the naked eye.

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