Thursday, February 27, 2014

From Kepler Data, Astronomers Find Galaxy Filled With More but Smaller Worlds - NYTimes.com

From Kepler Data, Astronomers Find Galaxy Filled With More but Smaller Worlds - NYTimes.com:



 "The result is a deluge of small planets that has tipped the cosmic balance from the giant Jupiter-size worlds that were the earliest discovered to smaller, friendlier worlds. “Small planets from the size of Neptune to Earth make up the majority of the planets in the galaxy,” said Douglas Hudgins, exoplanet program scientist at NASA headquarters."



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