Friday, February 14, 2014

15 Potentially Habitable Planets Discovered

15 Potentially Habitable Planets Discovered
Artist’s impression of the view from a moon around planet PH2b 

15 Potentially Habitable Planets Discovered by Amateur Astronomers -- Wired

Volunteers from the Planethunters website own identified 15 modern habitable planet candidates amid data collected by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft.

One of the 15, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the solar-type star KIC 12735740, has been officially inveterate as a planet (with 99.9 percent certainty).

Named PH2 b, it is the support inveterate planet to be found by Planethunters.Org, part of the Oxford University-led Zooniverse voter science project to facilitate turns tender data larger than to acute amateur researchers.

The residual 14 planet candidates are next to slightest 90 percent likely to be planets.
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My Comment: This is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

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