Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds

• Fwd: NASA Kepler Mission Update

Astronomers have made great strides in discovering planets outside of our solar system, termed “exoplanets.” In fact, over the past 20 years more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected beyond the eight planets that call our solar system home.

(...)

Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds

"The chance for the K2 mission to use gravity to help us explore exoplanets is one of the most fantastic astronomical experiments of the decade," said Steve Howell, project scientist for NASA's Kepler and K2 missions at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. "I am happy to be a part of this K2 campaign and look forward to the many discoveries that will be made." (...)

 

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/kepler/searching-for-far-out-and-wandering-worlds

 

•