Monday
Jan042010
NASA's Kepler Telescope Discovers 5 New Planets
Mon, January 4, 2010 
Five exoplanets (planets beyond our solar system) have just been discovered by NASA's Kepler telescope. Launched in March of last year, the Kepler telescope is set up for discovering Earth-sized planets. The five exoplanets discovered, range from Neptune sized, to the size of Jupiter. The estimated temperature of all the planets found is too great to yield any forms of life that are currently known by science. Too bad. We were really hoping to find out about our new alien overlords early on in 2010. I guess we'll all have to wait just a little longer.
via NASA
Reader Comments (2)
Our technology is still to weak to discover terrestrial planets (those like earth), which fall in the same size range and composition (rocky) as ours. These giant gas planets form at specific distances from star depending on the qualities of the star, but we can't detect the planets like ours, that form closer and at much smaller sizes.
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