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Kepler Finds Five More Exoplanets

Posted by kdawson on from the nice-places-to-visit-but dept.

Arvisp was one of several readers to send news of five new exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope. In addition to the new "hot Jupiters" — the easiest targets to find — Kepler's early data has turned up some oddities, including something that is too hot to be a planet and too small to be a star. And one of the exoplanets is so fluffy that "it has the density of Styrofoam." The real news is that Kepler works as designed, and the scientists running it are fully confident that it will find Earth-like planets in some star's habitable zone, if they are out there to be found. Here is NASA's press release.

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  1. Re:Conservative Approach by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:yay ! Science :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    dear mod I am not a troll
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  3. Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You see...we're all in a big Christmas tree,and...Nobel Laureate,Al Gore.

  4. Re:But Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who is saying this in particular? Name names, please.

  5. Re:If you like data . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stop signing your posts, it makes you look like a tool.