NASA Kepler find's 6 Alien Earth Like Planets

NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone, Six Planet System


NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the potential planets are near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of smaller, cooler stars than our sun.

Candidates require follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets. Kepler also found six confirmed planets orbiting a sun-like star, Kepler-11. This is the largest group of transiting planets orbiting a single star yet discovered outside our solar system.

"In one generation we have gone from extraterrestrial planets being a mainstay of science fiction, to the present, where Kepler has helped turn science fiction into today's reality," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "These discoveries underscore the importance of NASA's science missions, which consistently increase understanding of our place in the cosmos."

The discoveries are part of several hundred new planet candidates identified in new Kepler mission science data, released on Tuesday, Feb. 1. The findings increase the number of planet candidates identified by Kepler to-date to 1,235. Of these, 68 are approximately Earth-size; 288 are super-Earth-size; 662 are Neptune-size; 165 are the size of Jupiter and 19 are larger than Jupiter.

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[UseYerEFFINBrain]

This exists, and yet Kim Kardashian's divorce is news....

[timlee2891]

@GTnumber1 ignorant trash. stick to your trailer mates.

[GTnumber1]

I fail to see what the big deal is about finding other habitable planets..How will it benefit the population of our own planet?..Will it stop hatred and wars or famine and disease?...I've lived next to my neighbors for years and ,quite frankly, I hardly speak to them, see them or don't really care about them in anyway..So finding a habitable planet 600 light years away, in my opinion, is just useless for us.

[happyface3690]

we send chuck norris to the planet and beat the aliens

[klenmoms]

there is one star or planet calls Maitreya , a lot people can check it on youtube, cause a lot of people where posting videos captured, the thing is for all time i've been searched for it i didn't see any official description or from NASA or any else official source, only people with home video cams were capture it same as i , and this UFO flying in the air about three years. but such sources kind of NASA and all others , usually talking about mars or other planets or some 13 galaxy whole

[fragrooster375]

13th comment =D

[cheepjxiong]

12th comment =D

[xXlVenoomlXx]

11th comment =D

[villanuevas1]

8th comment =D