Earth-like, habitable exoplanet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data

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A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.

Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c, when looking through old observations from Kepler, which the agency retired in 2018. While previous searches with a computer algorithm misidentified it, researchers reviewing Kepler data took a second look at the signature and recognized it as a planet. Out of all the exoplanets found by Kepler, this distant world – located 300 light-years from Earth – is most similar to Earth in size and estimated temperature.

"This intriguing, distant world gives us even greater hope that a second Earth lies among the stars, waiting to be found,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “The data gathered by missions like Kepler and our Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will continue to yield amazing discoveries as the science community refines its abilities to look for promising planets year after year."

"Out of all the mislabeled planets we've recovered, this one's particularly exciting – not just because it's in the habitable zone and Earth-size, but because of how it might interact with this neighboring planet," said Andrew Vanderburg, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and first author on the paper released today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. "If we hadn't looked over the algorithm's work by hand, we would have missed it."

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/earth-size-habitable-zone-planet-found-hidden-in-early-nasa-kepler-data

[GaGaAst 13,124]

scientists are too slow. Gaga already went and filmed stupid love video there in January.

Just see the last picture in OP

Chromatica 

 

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

22 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/earth-size-habitable-zone-planet-found-hidden-in-early-nasa-kepler-data

me watching that sunset

 

[gaggs 1,090]

Even her planet gets leaked

smh, she can't announce anything herself 

[GaGaAst 13,124]

3 minutes ago, gaggs said:

Even her planet gets leaked

smh, she can't announce anything herself 

inb4 she records "Everything I do leaks" as next single and even that leaks. 

[Sneaky Oliver 22,985]

Lets blast off to a new exoplanet 

in your planet 

Kepler! 

[Versace 8,080]

We should have the Chromatica listening party over there 

[Daylight Jokers 14,958]

Is this Chromatica?

[Mr Oak 7,761]

2 hours ago, GaGaAst said:

scientists are too slow. Gaga already went and filmed stupid love video there in January.

Just see the last picture in OP

Chromatica 

 

 

2 hours ago, Chromaticlaps said:

me watching that sunset

 

 

2 hours ago, gaggs said:

Even her planet gets leaked

smh, she can't announce anything herself 

[bionic 50,111]

Isn't this the start of Alien: Covenant?  

[ShayCristoforo 10,607]

It’s literally Chromatica 

Thank u Bobby for buying a planet for marketing purposes 

hint hint wink wink nudge nudge 

[Guest ARTPOPSlays]

I mean it looks very similar to earth! It looks like mostly land, and then some body’s of water, even if that’s not water, cuz when I zoom in it doesn’t at all lol

[Franz Ferdinand 2,359]

Let's move there, it looks cute.

[PunkTheFunk 125,703]

Bobby, we're using the planet

[ThisGuyTony 34,951]

I swear there’s an “Earth-like planet” discovered every year.