Monday, July 30, 2012
Astronomers have discovered a planetary system like our own!
Is there somewhere in the universe, a planet similar to Earth's twin? Scientists have no doubt that the space is full of heavenly bodies, to which you can apply the term "second Earth". There are also systems planet that looks like a mirror image our Solar System. Researchers have discovered a celestial band, whose arrangement is deceptively close to our system. Yet none of the previously discovered by astronomers systems was not so very similar to the solar system, like the recently discovered by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Experts, using data from the Kepler Space Telescope, studied carefully Kepler 30th star system The work examined the relationship in which they are celestial bodies and the central star of this system. The results were astounding. It turned out that the prevailing arrangement in this system is very similar to the order which prevails in the solar system. Experts have determined that all three planets that are part of that system , are from four to twelve times larger than Earth. According to the researchers, the system Kepler-30 may have originated in the same way as the solar system, ie with a relatively flattenedlayermaterial near the star. experts have no doubt that the latest discovery will bring a breakthrough in research on egzoplanets.
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