1:33 AM
A team of researchers, including Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institute, made this discovery will be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
The discovery team led by William Borucki of NASA Ames Research Center, using photometric data from NASA space telescope, Kepler, which monitors about 155,000 stars.
This discovery is the first detection of planets that might be inhabited. Where the parent star about 600 light years away from us toward the constellation Lyra and Cygnus.
Stars, which include G5 star category, has a mass and radius is only slightly smaller than the Sun. As a result, the star is about 25 percent less luminous than the Sun.
The planet is orbiting the G5 star with orbital period 290 days, compared with 365 days it takes the earth to circle the Sun, and located at a distance of about 15 percent closer to its star than Earth to the Sun. This has resulted in the planet's temperature comfortable.
It orbits in the middle zone of stars that can support life, in which water is expected to exist in the planet's surface. However, experts also say that in addition can be occupied, the new planet with the size 2.4 times larger than the Earth is probably also inhabited.
"These findings support a growing belief that we live in a universe crowded with life. Kepler on the verge of determining the abundance of Earth-like planets in our galaxy. "Boss said, quoted Mail Online.
"While scientists have initiated an 'index' systematically to categorize planets are likely 'liveable', and so far, we have found 47 planets and moons that might support life." He added.
NASA Astronomers Find Another Planet Blue. However, this time to Inhabited
Astronomers have found the first blue planet that can support life, orbiting a star similar to our sun.
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered new planets for a few years ago, but this discovery is the first space telescope is finding large planets that can be inhabited like the earth, which is a rocky planet with a surface temperature around 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius), similar to spring temperatures on Earth.
Habitable planets
A team of researchers, including Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institute, made this discovery will be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
The discovery team led by William Borucki of NASA Ames Research Center, using photometric data from NASA space telescope, Kepler, which monitors about 155,000 stars.
This discovery is the first detection of planets that might be inhabited. Where the parent star about 600 light years away from us toward the constellation Lyra and Cygnus.
Stars, which include G5 star category, has a mass and radius is only slightly smaller than the Sun. As a result, the star is about 25 percent less luminous than the Sun.
The planet is orbiting the G5 star with orbital period 290 days, compared with 365 days it takes the earth to circle the Sun, and located at a distance of about 15 percent closer to its star than Earth to the Sun. This has resulted in the planet's temperature comfortable.
It orbits in the middle zone of stars that can support life, in which water is expected to exist in the planet's surface. However, experts also say that in addition can be occupied, the new planet with the size 2.4 times larger than the Earth is probably also inhabited.
"These findings support a growing belief that we live in a universe crowded with life. Kepler on the verge of determining the abundance of Earth-like planets in our galaxy. "Boss said, quoted Mail Online.
"While scientists have initiated an 'index' systematically to categorize planets are likely 'liveable', and so far, we have found 47 planets and moons that might support life." He added.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 Responses to “NASA Astronomers Find Another Planet Blue. However, this time to Inhabited”
What galaxy is this new planet in.
July 13, 2013 at 7:42 PMis it possible for humans to travel to these planets
August 22, 2013 at 7:15 AMPost a Comment