 January 31, 2012 - 4:17pm | http://io9.com/5879976/meet-the-galaxys-26-newest-planets Chalk another one up to NASA's Kepler Mission. The Agency's team of planet-hunters announced yesterday the discovery of 11 new planetary systems, which together harbor 26 brand spanking new planets.
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 January 31, 2012 - 4:42pm | That's slightly over two planets per system, have to think that there could be more present that we're just not seeing. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 1, 2012 - 5:38am | Are they using actually images or mathematical probability based on observations of the Stars? Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 February 1, 2012 - 10:17am | Proabability and large computer simulations now. Until a few weeks ago all "detections" had to be confirmed by an independent observational technique but now they have large simulations that run through thousands or millions of possibilites to rule out false detection. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
