#kepler-37b

[zer3misthebest]

I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING WHY DID I EVEN MADE THIS

Hm I wonder

Totally I didn't changed something

[mentalflossr]

Say Hello to the Tiniest Planet Ever Discovered

Say hello to Kepler-37b, ladies and gents.

[technologyclist]

NASA's Kepler telescope spies smallest planet to date, no aliens - published on: Technology Companies List

NASA’s Kepler telescope is permanently on the lookout for celestial objects of interest, and its latest discovery is a small one. A small planet, to be exact — in fact, the smallest its encountered during its search. Kepler-37b is a tad larger than our heavenly dance partner, the Moon, and whizzes round a star much like our Sun, with two larger planets in its system for company. NASA’s…

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NASA’s Kepler telescope spies smallest planet to date, no aliens

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NASA's Kepler telescope spies smallest planet to date, no aliens

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(via UniverseToday)

"The planet’s discovery came from a collaboration between Kepler scientists and a consortium of international researchers who employ asteroseismology — measuring oscillations in the star’s brightness caused by continuous star-quakes, and turning those tiny variations in the star’s light into sounds.

'That’s basically listening to the star by measuring sound waves,' said Steve Kawaler, from Iowa State University in the US, and a member of the research team. 'The bigger the star, the lower the frequency, or ‘pitch’ of its song.'"

[nationalpost-blog]

‘That’s no moon’: Astronomers find smallest planet yet outside of solar system Astronomers searching for planets outside our solar system have discovered the tiniest one yet – one that’s about the size of our moon. But hunters for life in the universe will need to poke elsewhere. The new world orbits too close to its sun-like star and is too sizzling to support life. Its surface temperature is an estimated 700 degrees Fahrenheit. It also lacks an atmosphere and water on its rocky surface. University of California, Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy, one of the founding fathers of the planet-hunting field, called the latest find “absolutely mind-boggling.” “This new discovery raises the specter that the universe is jampacked, like jelly beans in a jar, with planets even smaller than Earth.” (AP Photo/NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech)