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80 possible exoplanets discovered by Kepler
A survey of 50,000 stars in the hunt for exoplanets is being lauded as a successful dry run for the new TESS telescope.
Fri Jun 22, 2018
Submitted by Iain Todd
Nearly 80 possible planets outside our Solar System have been discovered in a survey of 50,000 stars.
The exoplanet candidates were discovered by the K2 mission, a follow-up mission of the Kepler Space Telescope.
The discoveries were made in record time and the mission is being taken as a ‘dry run’ for the new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which launched in April 2018.
One of the standout candidates is a likely exoplanet orbiting star HD 73344.
More:
http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/80-possible-exoplanets-discovered-kepler
