The report of the search for life. NASA: one planet “extremely promising” – TVN Meteo

In 2009. Kepler team of scientists support after it is sent from Earth to work, you have one task – to find a planet the size of our existing in areas in which potentially can develop life. Data for such areas in the universe are based on measurements dot. Distances of the planets from their stars (suns). It was decided to look for those on the surface through which appropriate to the distance from the star, on the surface water could exist in liquid form, and therefore such an atmosphere that is neither too cold nor too hot, and life could go on and develop.

On Tuesday, NASA announced that the number of so-called 984. exoplanets, and so planets outside the solar system, the data from the Kepler telescope in recent years allowed for adding to the sum of consecutive 1284. The total number of planets in the galaxy of the Milky Way, we know of 10 May 2268. What is important, these taken into account NASA data obtained from Kelper have a size of “close to the earth.”

Kepler telescope has allowed scientists to predict “about three dozen planets,” located in areas where life is potentially very great potential duration and development. New data from the telescope identified the nine of particular interest. Most are the size of Mars and Mercury. Scientists These sizes to “like” because it almost certainly means that planets are – like the Earth – the big rocks. Planet more than twice the size of Earth are mostly gas spheres.

Of the nine planets, one is a “very promising” – said Natalie Batalha, a scientist participating in the mission on behalf of Kepler NASA research center in Moffett Field, California. It is “about 60 percent. The size of Earth and only slightly warmer than her.” It is located in the center of the sphere in which should develop life and revolves around its star at a distance of probably approximate to that in which the Earth orbits around the sun. Sphere, which can be formed by life scientists described on the basis of models of activities to determine how much energy reaches the planet with the stars representing the center systems. Researchers believe that this is the case of this particular. Scientists also informed that their study by means of a telescope that, even 24 percent. stars in the Milky Way galaxy, which is a microscopic part of the solar system, has its own planet.