Last month, NASA released a series of vintage travel posters depicting three of the nearly 5,000 planets found by space telescopes outside our solar system. The release may celebrate NASA marking a recent milestone – Kepler telescope has spotted its 1,000th exoplanet. In those bright colored posters, NASA seems to invite space travelers to visit the three extra solar planets, or exoplanets. … [Read more...]
Ground-based telescope detects a “Super-Earth” Orbiting a Sun-like Star
An international team of astronomers discovered a planet orbiting a Sun-like star in the Cancer constellation by using a ground-based telescope named the Nordic Optical Telescope. It has a total length of 2.5 meters and is located in the Spanish archipelago Canary Islands at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory. This was the first time when ground-based telescopes were used in detecting and … [Read more...]