Kepler Telescope Sports Five Discoveries So Far

From Wired:

The Kepler Space Telescope, a designated planet-hunting satellite, has found its first five planets, among them an odd, massive world only as dense as Styrofoam.

'We expected Jupiter-size planets in short orbits to be the first planets Kepler could detect,' said Jon Morse, director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA in a release. 'It’s only a matter of time before more Kepler observations lead to smaller planets with longer period orbits, coming closer and closer to the discovery of the first Earth analog.'

'This exquisite data is just the tip of the iceberg,' MIT astronomer Sara Seager said back then. 'We’re going to see a new world of exoplanet exploration where discoveries will come much more rapidly than they’ve come in the last 10 years.”

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