Announced that the space agency and Aviation Administration (NASA) space that Tlscopha "Kepler" discovered 715 new planets added to the list of known planets outside the solar system, bringing the total number to some 1,700 planet.
The agency said in a news conference on Wednesday that one of the discovered planets orbiting 305 four-star larger than the Earth twice and almost half the time, and revolve around their stars in orbit known viable region.
It also confirmed that the new discoveries is a multi-planetary systems like our solar system, and that 94% of those smaller than Neptune (which is equivalent to almost four times the size of Earth size) planets.
She added that the Kepler telescope was launched in 2009, who spent four years in the monitoring of 160 thousand to star in search of signs of planets passing have the possibility to be viable, have been found on these new planets before exposure positioning it last year to a system malfunction.
He says the research team captain Jason Rao -oho a Scholars Institute "as ETA" in Mountain View, Pkalafornea- had been planets and stars analysis by researchers using the first two years of the discoveries of Kepler data (May / May 2009 to March / March 2011), adding that Based on that study, "we know that these small planets in multiple systems, flat and circular orbits."
And this number rises total number of confirmed planets discovered by Kepler from 246 to 961, and added to the results of other telescopes discoveries of planets outside the solar system, the total some 1,700 planet.
The head of the discovery of planets outside the solar system program, Douglas Hudgens, at NASA headquarters in Washington, told reporters: "Just today we have increased to nearly double the number of planets known to mankind."
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