07-18-2016, 04:38 PM
In a joint study that involves Keck Observatory, both Gemini Observatories, and the Kepler satellite, over 100 planets have been discovered, including 4 potentially similar to earth:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-kepler-planets-trove.html
"Our analysis shows that by the end of the K2 mission, we expect to double or triple the number of relatively small planets orbiting nearby, bright stars,"
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-kepler-planets-trove.html
"Our analysis shows that by the end of the K2 mission, we expect to double or triple the number of relatively small planets orbiting nearby, bright stars,"
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”