{"id":2239,"date":"2015-01-23T07:26:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2015-01-23T07:26:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:26:54","slug":"astronomers-discover-first-multiple-planet-system-from-k2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/astronomers-discover-first-multiple-planet-system-from-k2\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover First Multiple-Planet System From K2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The artistic concept shows NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft operating in a new mission profile called K2. Using publicly available data, astronomers may have confirmed K2’s first discovery of star with more than one planet.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Astronomers using data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft’s reborn K2 mission may have made its first discovery of a star with three exoplanets\u2014planets that orbit stars other than our sun.<\/p>\n

Ranging in size from fifty percent larger to a little more than twice the size of Earth, the possible planets orbit a star about half the size and mass of our sun. The outermost planet orbits on the warm edge of the habitable zone, the distance from a star where liquid water might exist on the surface of an orbiting planet.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“We are delighted to see the enthusiastic response\u00a0for K2.\u00a0The mission has\u00a0extended the telescope’s search capability to a new part of\u00a0the\u00a0sky,\u00a0marking the first K2 exoplanet discovery less than a month ago, and now the possible discovery of the first K2 multiple-planet system,” said Charles Sobeck, Kepler project manager at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. “We look forward to the outcome of the peer-review process of this latest result.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0The star, called EPIC 2011367065, home to these possible planets is about 150 light-years away in the constellation Leo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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