EPIC Find! NASA Telescope Spies 3 New Potentially Habitable Planets! (1-18-15) ~ https://youtube/watch?v=epfnL1Dxjlk NASA’s Kepler telescope has its eye on three new potentially habitable planets. At a distance of 150 light years, the three “lukewarm” bodies are among the closest candidates for habitable life. The star they orbit is known m as EPIC201367065. It’s an M-class dwarf about half the mass and size of our own Sun. It’s a little colder too. But at a trillion-and-a-half kilometers away (930,000,000 miles) it makes the top 10 list of our closest presumably habitable systems. One of the three planets discovered is particularly exciting to scientists, but the rest of our gadgets are still to do their analyzing and the discovery is then to be handed over to the Hubble telescope for a more intricate look.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:05:33 +0000
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