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They are in the planetary system "Kepler-22" a planet that can have water
posted on: Dec 6 2011 8:31 by RDugey. Viewed 30 times.
The Kepler Space Observatory found in planetary system "Kepler-22", 600 light years, the first planet located in the "habitable zone", the region in which believe that it can be liquid, water yesterday announced the NASA in a wheel press.
In addition, scientists of the NASA Ames Research Center announced that Kepler identified 1,000 new candidates to globe, ten of which have a similar size to the Earth and orbiting in the habitable zone of the star of the solar system.
The planet, Kepler-22b, is the smallest found by spacecraft orbiting in the "habitable zone" - one where the temperatures allow the life - a star similar to that of the Earth.
Is larger than the Earth and has not yet determined if it is Rocky, gaseous or liquid, but said the Deputy Director of the scientific equipment of the Ames Center, Natalie Batalha: "we are more and more closely to find a planet similar to" u000a"the land".
El Kepler had already given tracks previously of a size similar to the of our planets orbiting "habitable zones", but this is the first time that it finds.
Also scientists updated the number of candidates for planets, which from the beginning to be developed in 2009 list has grown to 2.326. Of these, 207 size closer to the Earth and 680 are greater than the Earth and are called "Super lands".
The rest, 1.181 are the size of Neptune, 203 are equivalent to the size of Jupiter and 55 are still larger than Jupiter, the largest of our Solar System.
Released in March 2009, the Kepler mission is to collect data and evidence of planets orbiting around stars with temperature conditions mean where there is liquid water, and therefore life.
Kepler detects planets and candidates for planet by measuring falls in the u000abrightness of more than 150,000 stars who are watching to see if these possible planets pass ahead of its stars, a movement known as transit.
However, it is not enough and to verify the signal of a planet, it is necessary that the Observatory captures three transits to start the process to determine whether or not of a possible planet.
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