Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope may have saved the best for last. Astronomers combing over data collected by the telescope before its retirement in 2018 have found a system of seven planets being blasted by radiation from their parent star.
At the heart of Keplar-385 is a star around 1.1 times larger and 5% hotter than our sun. The inner planet, Kepler-385 b, has a mass around 12.8 times greater than Earth's and is 2.7 times as wide as our planet. It orbits its star at around 10% of the distance between Earth and the sun and completes an orbit in around 10 Earth days.
Both Keplar-385 c and Keplar-385 b are thought to be rocky planets with thin atmospheres. The remaining five planets are further out and are believed to be roughly twice the size of Earth and are thought to be enshrouded in thick atmospheres.first started observing the universe in 2009, and its primary mission ended in 2013. After this, the space telescope embarked on an extended mission that lasted until it was decommissioned in 2018.
Even though the final chapters of the Kepler mission are aimed at measuring how common planets are around other stars, this discovery shows how the latest exoplanet catalog update can allow scientists to determine the characteristics of worlds outside the
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