The outgoing year was memorable in the detection of distant stellar systems, a number of interesting planets. But next year may prove to be a truly memorable one: probably the first time we will be able to detect a true ...
Through the work of Kepler Space Telescope number of known extrasolar planets over the past year has exceeded 700 - though they continue to analyze and confirm the data is still waiting for the thousands of potential new discoveries. Only yesterday we wrote about a really significant event in this area, where were the first to find a planet the size of no more than our own.
Unfortunately, there is no known distant world, which could be a first approximation, called the ... Some are the size of this small, it is necessary that a planet like ours, was located at a distance from its star that it allowed the temperature at constant liquid water to exist, do not freeze or evaporate - in short, be in the so-called ...
So far we know of planets in ... However, many experts believe that this long-awaited discovery just around the corner. Perhaps the evidence of the first of these planets are already in the preliminary data of the probe Kepler, still pending, and verification. This optimistic view is not unfounded.
On this idea suggest at least an impressive rate, which now find exoplanets found. Only 16 years ago opened the first of them. By the beginning of this year, was already known 528 exoplanets, and less than a year, this figure increased to 713 ty. As can be seen, the rate of detection of exoplanets is growing. Only in recent data from the probe Kepler and promulgated on December 5, 1094 There are new candidates for the title of exoplanets. And if the candidates in 2326, Kepler found for the first 16 months of operation, only 33 managed to get a final confirmation as exoplanets, it is believed that the exoplanets can be up to 80% of this number.
However, it is not only a purely quantitative growth - but also a qualitative. Only now we begin to understand how diverse and unusual may be the planet. Known planet light and ... There are two suns in the world - and, of course, there are a few examples of extrasolar planets whose orbits lie in a comfortable ... Unfortunately, they are all too large in comparison with the Earth. Only now we have started to be selected to the planets as small as ours - and so it is next year promises to be particularly interesting.
It should take into account the particular method of operation of the device Kepler. The search for extrasolar planets, he is using the transit method, recording minute changes in the light of distant stars in the periods when the planet passes between it and us. For sufficiently reliable monitoring device should watch this passage at least three times - so if some alien astronomers using analog Kepler studied this Earth, they would need at least three years. And the longer Kepler continues to operate in orbit, the more chances he has to find a real ... Since the beginning of his mission, he just worked for nearly three years: the fun begins.
Of course, no running with the Kepler probe, scientists, or their colleagues can not promise anything with absolute certainty. But hopes are great, but wait, there are fewer - probably until next June or July, when the next will be presented interim results of the probe, ...
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