Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

Dev.SN ♥ developers

NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets

posted by mattie_p on Thursday February 27 2014, @10:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-bet-that's-all-of-them-now dept.

kef writes:

"NASA's Kepler mission has doubled the number of known planets outside of our solar system. In what can only be described as a "bonanza", 715 new planets have been reported thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission. Using a new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other worlds that may be like Earth."

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 1000 moderator points   | 27 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 2) by combatserver on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:09PM

    by combatserver (38) on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:09PM (#8169)

    "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ be/LombergA1024.jpg"

    Interesting image.

    I gazed at it for awhile, taking in all the implications and quickly realized that it appears that our Solar system is getting flushed down a toilet-bowl of monumental...er, Galactic proportions. This worried me some until I realized that--judging by the length of the headlight beam--we have thousands of years before this happens. We will all be dead long before that happens.

    But, then, I noticed the cross-hairs aimed at us.

    --
    I hope I can change this later...
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2