{"id":5179,"date":"2013-11-04T23:24:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T23:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2013-11-04T23:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T23:24:48","slug":"kepler-data-analysis-increases-exoplanet-candidate-count-by-833","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5179","title":{"rendered":"Kepler data analysis increases exoplanet candidate count by 833"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continued examination of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/kepler\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_d\">Kepler Observatory<\/a> data has increased the number of candidate planets by\u00a0833 to over 3500. Though the observatory is no longer able to maintain pointing precision to the level sufficient to do the transit observations, there is a big storehouse of data yet to be analyzed and results will continue to arrive for a long time. Also, probably most &#8220;candidates&#8221; will eventually be confirmed as actual planets and not data artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis of the planet data indicates that most every star in the Milky Way will probably have at least one planet orbiting it. And about a fifth of sun-like stars will have a planet similar to earth (1 to 2 times the mass of earth) orbiting within its so-called habitable zone, e.g. where the temperatures are sufficiently mild to allow liquid water to form if the atmosphere is dense enough.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on the new findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/nasa-kepler-results-usher-in-a-new-era-of-astronomy\/index.html#.UngmiXCTjjY\" target=\"_d\">NASA Kepler Results Usher in a New Era of Astronomy &#8211; NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2396\/1\" target=\"_d\">In search of other Earths &#8211; The Space Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/seth-shostak\/the-numbers-are-astronomi_b_4214484.html\" target=\"_d\">The Numbers Are Astronomical &#8211; Seth Shostak\/Huffington Post<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; what the numbers mean for SETI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/candidate-sizes-histo_2013-wide_0.jpg?itok=yj_7BivK\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Chart showing sizes of planet candidates as of November 2013.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/673xvariable_height\/public\/candidate-sizes-histo_2013-wide_0.jpg?itok=yj_7BivK\" width=\"471\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Graph of the number of planet candidates in different mass categories<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and the increase in each category from the latest Kepler data.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Image Credit:\u00a0NASA<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/kepler-candidates-lined-up-4_0_2.jpg?itok=Um1Tna6h\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5180\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=5180\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/kepler-candidates-lined-up-4_0_2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kepler-candidates-lined-up-4_0_2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/kepler-candidates-lined-up-4_0_2.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5180\" alt=\"kepler-candidates-lined-up-4_0_2\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/kepler-candidates-lined-up-4_0_2-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/kepler-candidates-lined-up-4_0_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/kepler-candidates-lined-up-4_0_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/kepler-candidates-lined-up-4_0_2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>An illustration of the relative sizes of the exoplanets<\/em><br \/>\n<em>candidates found by Kepler.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continued examination of the Kepler Observatory data has increased the number of candidate planets by\u00a0833 to over 3500. Though the observatory is no longer able to maintain pointing precision to the level sufficient to do the transit observations, there is a big storehouse of data yet to be analyzed and results will continue to arrive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kepler data analysis increases exoplanet candidate count by 833<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoplanets","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1lx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11050,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11050","url_meta":{"origin":5179,"position":0},"title":"Kepler spots first earth-size planet in habitable zone of its star system","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the Kepler announcement: NASA\u2019s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the \u201chabitable zone\u201d around a sun-like star. 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