by RD – GEV.com
The number of multi-planetary solar systems known by scientists tripled thanks to new discoveries made by NASA with the help of the Kepler space telescope.
“Before the launch of the Kepler mission we know about the existence of 500 exoplanets in the entire universe” Doug Hudgins explained, researcher inside the Kepler team in the NASA Lab in Washington DC.
“Now, in just two years in which we studied only a small patch, Kepler discovered more than 60 planets and 2,300 units with the potential of being classified as planes. This makes us believe that our galaxy contains more planets than what we believed so far” Hudgins said.
The newest announcements made by NASA researchers details the discovery of 11 stars around which 26 planets are orbiting.
Researchers announce that there are high chances that Kepler might help in the discovery of some solar systems similar to our own, to include a Earth sized planet that orbits a star in the region that allows the development of alien life. Even if the telescope is not going to help to detect life on other planets, this potential discovery proves that Earth like planets are not rare in the Universe, on the contrary.
