Thursday 6 September 2012

Exoplanets discovered by Kepler Telescope

Till now, 41 new transiting exoplanets have been discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope in twenty different star systems. The studies (currently in peer review) could increase the number of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler Telescope by more than fifty per cent. 

Image caption: The diagram shows the newly submitted transiting planets in green along with the unconfirmed planet candidates in the same system in violet. The systems are ordered horizontally by increasing Kepler number and KOI designation and vertically by orbital period.
Photo: 41 new transiting exoplanets have been discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope in twenty different star systems. The studies (currently in peer review) could increase the number of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler Telescope by more than fifty per cent. 

Image caption: The diagram shows the newly submitted transiting planets in green along with the unconfirmed planet candidates in the same system in violet. The systems are ordered horizontally by increasing Kepler number and KOI designation and vertically by orbital period.

Image credit: Jason Steffen, Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics

Fore more info and a full size version of the diagram, see NASA's release here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/41-new-transiting-planets.html 

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