NASA: Kepler telescope discovers strange new planet | The State Column
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia NASA: Kepler telescope discovers strange new planet | The State Column : "NASA will reveal the latest batch of discoveries made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope on Monday, according to a statement released by the space agency. NASA says it will hold a press conference at its Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California . The press conference is the first of the inaugural Kepler Science Conference, which will focus on findings made by the Kepler telescope. The conference will run from December 5 to December 9 and will feature more than 110 scientific presentations, officials said." The exoplanet, which is known as Kepler-21b, is just 1.6 times bigger than earth, making it a so-called “ super Earth .” However, the planet orbits so close to its parent star that astronomers say its surface temperature to be about 2,960 degrees Fahrenheit . The planet reportedly orbits at a distance of six million...