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April 20 2012

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Siphonophores - Longest animals on the planet
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April 14 2012

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March 08 2012

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Rhea passes in front of the much larger haze-shrouded moon Titan, both in orbit around Saturn. (NASA/JPL)
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March 04 2012

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Control room of reactor No. 4, Chernobyl Power Plant  (Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE)

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Kepler Orrery II

The Kepler mission has dumped its latest batch of exoplanet candidates on the pile this week. This recent addition brings the total number of exoplanet candidates (planet-like objects transiting a distant star) to 2,321!

The video above is a visualization of all those planetary systems with more than one member, like our own solar system, with sizes and orbits to scale. One even has six planets!!

These are all currently just candidates, but with continued support for this project we can continue to seek out the answer to that question on everyone’s mind: How many could support life, and in what ways? Too early to tell, unfortunately.

Here’s some stats on the Kepler list so far:

  • There are now 246 Earth-sized planet candidates.
  • There are 1,118 Neptune-sized candidates, but big planets are easier to find with Kepler.
  • Forty-six of these are in the “habitable zone”, 10 of which are Earth-sized.
  • There was a 123% increase in planets with orbits longer than 50 days.

The search continues!

http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/18591712523/keplers-latest-1-091-new-kepler-planet

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Space shuttle seen by TIRA radar (FGAN Reasearch Institute) in Wachtberg near Bonn
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