http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/04/17/possibly-habitable-earth-sized-planet-discovered
April 17, 2014 - Discover Magazine blog
Exoplanets are fun and all, but those hot Jupiters and super Neptunes
and such are kind of beside the point. Everyone knows the real search
is for a planet like ours: rocky, smallish, and capable of hosting
liquid water. And now scientists have found one, named Kepler-186f — an
Earth-sized planet in its star’s habitable zone, the area where
conditions aren’t too hot or too cold, but just right, for liquid water
to be possible.
The planet orbits a star about 500 light-years away called Kepler-186 and was discovered by the Kepler telescope (and then confirmed at the Keck and Gemini
Observatories). The discovery technically includes four other
exoplanets found around the star, but Kepler-186f is the only one in the
habitable zone. Scientists found them all using the “transit method,”
which is just basically looking at stars and waiting for planets to pass
in front, dimming the star’s light a little bit.
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
Kepler Has Found the First Earth-Sized Exoplanet in a Habitable Zone!
http://www.universetoday.com/111319/kepler-has-found-the-first-earth-sized-exoplanet-in-a-habitable-zone/
April 17, 2014 - Universe Today
It’s truly a “eureka” moment for Kepler scientists: the first rocky Earth-sized world has been found in a star’s habitable “Goldilocks” zone, the narrow belt where liquid water could readily exist on a planet’s surface without freezing solid or boiling away. And while it’s much too soon to tell if this really is a “twin Earth,” we can now be fairly confident that they do in fact exist.
April 17, 2014 - Universe Today
It’s truly a “eureka” moment for Kepler scientists: the first rocky Earth-sized world has been found in a star’s habitable “Goldilocks” zone, the narrow belt where liquid water could readily exist on a planet’s surface without freezing solid or boiling away. And while it’s much too soon to tell if this really is a “twin Earth,” we can now be fairly confident that they do in fact exist.
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Observatories find first possibly habitable planet outside solar system
http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/observatories-find-first-possibly-habitable-planet-outside-solar-system
April 17, 2014 - West Hawaii Today
April 17, 2014 - West Hawaii Today
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Mauna Kea observatories confirmed this week the discovery of the first
potentially habitable Earth-sized planet found outside our own solar
system.
“What makes this finding particularly compelling is that this Earth-sized planet, one of five orbiting this star, which is cooler than the sun, resides in a temperate region where water could exist in liquid form,” said Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center, who led a paper on the discovery published in the current issue of the journal Science.
The Hawaii Island-based W.M. Keck and Gemini observatories participated in collecting and analyzing data to confirm the initial discovery, made using the Kepler Space Telescope, according to Keck’s communications officer, Steve Jefferson.
- See more at: http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/observatories-find-first-possibly-habitable-planet-outside-solar-system#sthash.JuoMaleC.dpuf
“What makes this finding particularly compelling is that this Earth-sized planet, one of five orbiting this star, which is cooler than the sun, resides in a temperate region where water could exist in liquid form,” said Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center, who led a paper on the discovery published in the current issue of the journal Science.
The Hawaii Island-based W.M. Keck and Gemini observatories participated in collecting and analyzing data to confirm the initial discovery, made using the Kepler Space Telescope, according to Keck’s communications officer, Steve Jefferson.
- See more at: http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/observatories-find-first-possibly-habitable-planet-outside-solar-system#sthash.JuoMaleC.dpuf
Two Mauna Kea observatories
confirmed this week the discovery of the first potentially habitable
Earth-sized planet found outside our own solar system.
“What makes this finding
particularly compelling is that this Earth-sized planet, one of five orbiting
this star, which is cooler than the sun, resides in a temperate region where
water could exist in liquid form,” said Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute
and NASA Ames Research Center, who led a paper on the discovery published in
the current issue of the journal Science.
The Hawaii Island-based W.M. Keck
and Gemini observatories participated in collecting and analyzing data to
confirm the initial discovery, made using the Kepler Space Telescope, according
to Keck’s communications officer, Steve Jefferson.
...
Two
Mauna Kea observatories confirmed this week the discovery of the first
potentially habitable Earth-sized planet found outside our own solar
system.
“What makes this finding particularly compelling is that this Earth-sized planet, one of five orbiting this star, which is cooler than the sun, resides in a temperate region where water could exist in liquid form,” said Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center, who led a paper on the discovery published in the current issue of the journal Science.
The Hawaii Island-based W.M. Keck and Gemini observatories participated in collecting and analyzing data to confirm the initial discovery, made using the Kepler Space Telescope, according to Keck’s communications officer, Steve Jefferson.
- See more at: http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/observatories-find-first-possibly-habitable-planet-outside-solar-system#sthash.JuoMaleC.dpuf
“What makes this finding particularly compelling is that this Earth-sized planet, one of five orbiting this star, which is cooler than the sun, resides in a temperate region where water could exist in liquid form,” said Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center, who led a paper on the discovery published in the current issue of the journal Science.
The Hawaii Island-based W.M. Keck and Gemini observatories participated in collecting and analyzing data to confirm the initial discovery, made using the Kepler Space Telescope, according to Keck’s communications officer, Steve Jefferson.
- See more at: http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/observatories-find-first-possibly-habitable-planet-outside-solar-system#sthash.JuoMaleC.dpuf
Two
Mauna Kea observatories confirmed this week the discovery of the first
potentially habitable Earth-sized planet found outside our own solar
system.
“What makes this finding particularly compelling is that this Earth-sized planet, one of five orbiting this star, which is cooler than the sun, resides in a temperate region where water could exist in liquid form,” said Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center, who led a paper on the discovery published in the current issue of the journal Science.
The Hawaii Island-based W.M. Keck and Gemini observatories participated in collecting and analyzing data to confirm the initial discovery, made using the Kepler Space Telescope, according to Keck’s communications officer, Steve Jefferson.
- See more at: http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/observatories-find-first-possibly-habitable-planet-outside-solar-system#sthash.JuoMaleC.dpuf
“What makes this finding particularly compelling is that this Earth-sized planet, one of five orbiting this star, which is cooler than the sun, resides in a temperate region where water could exist in liquid form,” said Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center, who led a paper on the discovery published in the current issue of the journal Science.
The Hawaii Island-based W.M. Keck and Gemini observatories participated in collecting and analyzing data to confirm the initial discovery, made using the Kepler Space Telescope, according to Keck’s communications officer, Steve Jefferson.
- See more at: http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/observatories-find-first-possibly-habitable-planet-outside-solar-system#sthash.JuoMaleC.dpuf
wo
Mauna Kea observatories confirmed this week the discovery of the first
potentially habitable Earth-sized planet found outside our own solar
system.
“What makes this finding particularly compelling is that this Earth-sized planet, one of five orbiting this star, which is cooler than the sun, resides in a temperate region where water could exist in liquid form,” said Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center, who led a paper on the discovery published in the current issue of the journal Science.
The Hawaii Island-based W.M. Keck and Gemini observatories participated in collecting and analyzing data to confirm the initial discovery, made using the Kepler Space Telescope, according to Keck’s communications officer, Steve Jefferson.
- See more at: http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/observatories-find-first-possibly-habitable-planet-outside-solar-system#sthash.JuoMaleC.dpuf
“What makes this finding particularly compelling is that this Earth-sized planet, one of five orbiting this star, which is cooler than the sun, resides in a temperate region where water could exist in liquid form,” said Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center, who led a paper on the discovery published in the current issue of the journal Science.
The Hawaii Island-based W.M. Keck and Gemini observatories participated in collecting and analyzing data to confirm the initial discovery, made using the Kepler Space Telescope, according to Keck’s communications officer, Steve Jefferson.
- See more at: http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/observatories-find-first-possibly-habitable-planet-outside-solar-system#sthash.JuoMaleC.dpuf