Kepler 33 has five planets and can be compared to planet Earth
The NASA's telescope Kepler has recognised 11 more planetary systems including a Star Kepler 33 that can easily be compared to Earth. With this find, a total of 60 planets as extra-solar planets have been identified.
WHILE THE adorable ET in the Steven Spielberg movie might still be a myth but given the number of planets that are discovered by scientists on a daily basis, the day is not far when we would get a clue of some extra terrestrial lives in these planets. According to a report published in zeenews.com, Kepler, NASA’s planet hunting telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets called Kepler 33. All of them are orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the sun.
The telescope is very handy as apart from the confirmed 60 planets there are 2300 planets awaiting confirmation from the scientists. The scientists have confirmed that Kepler 33 is a star that is older and bigger than the Sun, and that the size of the planets found around Kepler 33 range from 1.5 times the diameter of Earth to five times the Earth’s diameter.
The findings being new, scientists are yet to determine whether the planets have gas inside them like our Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune or they might be solid hard like the Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury.
The research about the finding was published in four different papers such as Astrophysical Journal and the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Kepler at the moment is looking after 150,000 stars in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra.
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