02-15-2018, 04:17 AM
The Kepler Space Telescope has detected another 275 potential exoplanets. Astronomers on earth have verified 95 of them as newly discovered:
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-kepler-sci...anets.html
Some of these planets are then analyzed by an animation tool in Hawaii to look for habitable zones:
Müller, a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Groningen in Germany... and Haghighipour, a researcher at the Institute for Astronomy and the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, have collaborated on scientific papers that made use of the HZ calculator.
https://www.space.com/39676-alien-planet...-tool.html
While space telescopes such as Kepler and James Webb will play an important part in future discoveries, they can't completely replace earth based telescopes. Space telescopes don't operate autonomously as some have suggested... in a unattended vacuum, so to speak. They will continue to require and rely on earth based observatories, especially large earth based observatories for review and verification of their raw data.
Recycle Puna. Humans, although probably not you personally, have already left 400,000 pounds of trash on the moon. - YouTube's Half As Interesting
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-kepler-sci...anets.html
Some of these planets are then analyzed by an animation tool in Hawaii to look for habitable zones:
Müller, a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Groningen in Germany... and Haghighipour, a researcher at the Institute for Astronomy and the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, have collaborated on scientific papers that made use of the HZ calculator.
https://www.space.com/39676-alien-planet...-tool.html
While space telescopes such as Kepler and James Webb will play an important part in future discoveries, they can't completely replace earth based telescopes. Space telescopes don't operate autonomously as some have suggested... in a unattended vacuum, so to speak. They will continue to require and rely on earth based observatories, especially large earth based observatories for review and verification of their raw data.
Recycle Puna. Humans, although probably not you personally, have already left 400,000 pounds of trash on the moon. - YouTube's Half As Interesting
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