Wednesday, February 2, 2011

NASA finds planets aplenty beyond solar system
[ Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:44:37 GMT ]

NASA's Kepler telescope is finding that relatively smaller planets — still larger than Earth, but tinier than Jupiter —are proving more common outside our solar system than once thought. This drawing is of one of the smallest planets that Kepler has found, a rocky planet called Kepler-10b, that measures 1.4 times the size of Earth and where the temperature is more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. NASA's planet-hunting telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life. An early report from a cosmic census indicates that relatively small planets and stable multi-planet systems are far more plentiful than previous searches showed.


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