Friday, February 4, 2011

APOD 3.3

Oh boy! Exoplanets! When I had done my exoplanet quarter project, I had found many worlds that I declared "poor real estate." Never did I find a group like the 6 worlds around Kepler-11 where they are all closer to their star than Mercury is to ours. All terrestrial and found with the transits system to boot. We're not going to find another Gliese-581G that close to a sun-like star, though, but with the Keplar telescope having found 1200 planets in a portion of only 1/400th of the sky, we should be able to find another habitable world someday. Getting there is another story. See ya then, Vulcans.

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