Mar05
How NASA’s Kepler Will Seek Out Strange New Worlds
NASA’s new Kepler telescope will seek out new Earth-like planets beyond the scope of Europe’s CoRoT.
BOULDER, Colorado – NASA’s sharp-shooting Kepler spacecraft is ready to take its place this week in the pantheon of planetary detection technologies.
It wasn’t long ago when a question mark loomed over astronomers pondering whether other planets existed beyond our little family of solar system worlds. Today, nearly 330 exoplanets have been discovered in the past 15 years – most of which are gas giants with characteristics similar to Jupiter and Neptune. [...]
Source: Space.com – click here for full article
