Discovered more than 1,000 new planets and 9 of them could harbor life – The Imparcial.com

NASA has taken a leap forward in the search for life on other planets after more jamás finding by the US space agency. The Kepler space telescope has

enabled the identification of 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, whose number, the largest so far, doubling the existing number of planets beyond the solar system. Â € œThis gives us new hope that aha out somewhere around a sun like ours, we discover a new Earth Grounda € says Ellen Stofan NASA to the Astrophysical journal.

the NASA reports that the more than 1,000 new planets, 550 of them they could be rocky, like Earth and 9 of them orbit in the habitable zones of their respective stars (not they’re not too close (too hot) or too far (too frÃos) , so that could harbor life.

Kepler, the planet hunter tireless

with data from Kepler, which incluÃan a catalog of 4,305 potential worlds, astronomers determined that 1,284 of them have more than 99% chance of being really planets, that is, a percentage that confirms its existence. In addition, 1,327 more worlds They could also © n be planets, but we can not confirm it because they do not reach the minimum required to say that it is real planets. The remaining 707 worlds They could represent astrofÃsicos other objects that require more research

Kepler, the planet hunter (released in 2009), is again the protagonist of this discovery. Â € œGracias Kepler and the research community, we now know could have more planets than stars. And this knowledge will serve to set future missions that lead us increasingly closer to finding out whether we are alone in the Universoâ € said Paul Hertz, director of the Astrophysics Division of NASA.

with these 9 planets, the number of candidates for habitable worlds fructÃfero located thanks to Kepler, amounts to 21. since 2018, Kepler jubilará and will be replaced by the James Webb telescope (longer range and located estará me s away from the Earth) contará with the help of an instrument much more advanced: the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

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