More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives

StartsWithABang writes: By surveying an area of the sky containing over 150,000 stars visible to it, the Kepler satellite monitored each one over a multi-year period looking for periodic changes in brightness. Thousands of planetary candidates emerged via the transit method, where periodic dips of 3% or less were noted with regularity. However, a follow-up study has come out on the giant exoplanets, finding that over 50% of them aren't giant planets after all, but wound up being eclipsing binary stars. Perhaps our lone star Solar System is the oddity, after all.

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Re:People in Texas must be loving this

[Anon-Admin]

Go back to Mexico already.

Why do people say this?

We won our independence from Mexico and were an independent nation before we joined the US.

Strange how people will say "Remember the Alamo" but then forget that it was the relaying cry for Texas to declare our independents from Mexico and become a Nation.