Sunday, February 6, 2011

Hunters spot 90 potential new planets

Amplify’d from www.ox.ac.uk

Online stargazers have reported 90 potential new planets to Oxford University's planet seekers' website.

Planethunters.org was set up by Oxford’s Department of Physics to test NASA's Kepler project which is searching for planets in the 'Goldilocks zone', the region around a star in which planets can have liquid water and are neither too hot nor too cold for life to exist.

Kepler planets
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