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.

Earth-Sized Planets Number 17bn In Our Galaxy

This artist's rendering shows the different types of planets in the Milky Way detected by Nasa's Kepler spacecraft 

Kepler Telescope: Earth-Sized Planets 'Number 17bn' -- BBC 

Astronomers say to facilitate solitary in six stars hosts an Earth-sized planet in a close orbit - suggesting a out-and-out of 17 billion such planets in our galaxy.

The effect comes from an analysis of planet candidates gathered by Nasa's Kepler universe observatory.

The Kepler scientists furthermore announced 461 modern planet candidates, bringing the satellites' out-and-out haul to 2,740.

Their findings were announced next to the 221st summit of the American Astronomical Society in California.

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My Comment: That's a lot of earth-sized planets .... kinda puts everything into perspective.