Forty two
(42) alien planets have been discovered by a team of amateur astronomers, according
to a new report out by Space.com, and the discovery also includes a
Jupiter-size world that could potentially be habitable, by going through data collected
by the NASA Kepler spacecraft.
According to
details; 40 volunteers with the crowd-sourcing Planet Hunters project found the
new planet candidates, including 15 planets which might probably have the signs
of life and PH2 b, a huge planet compared to the size of Jupiter that
the team confirmed to be in the habitable zone of its parent star.
The group of
amateur researchers is now awaiting confirmation from
professional astronomers, according to a Live
Science report on Friday, January 11, 2013.
Chris Lintott, an
English astrophysicist at the Department of Physics in Oxford University and
works atZooniverse, explained that “These
are planet candidates that slipped through the net, being missed by
professional astronomers and rescued by volunteers in front of their
web browsers. It’s remarkable to think that absolutely anyone can discover a
planet.”
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