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3/13/2014

Topic Reading-Vol.701-3/13/2014

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
NASA discovers 715 new planets
Isn’t that incredible to find planets, not self-shining stars, thousands of light years away? How could scientists of astronomy find or figure them out?
They seem to have gotten a new gadget to explore the universe called Kepler space telescope. It was launched in 2009 to find planets similar to Earth that are in, or near, habitable zones. Habitable zones means the right distance from a parent star that could provide a moderate temperature to sustain water in liquid form, not solid or gas.
But how could they discover such small dark planets in the distance-away space? And how could they figure out whether those planets are habitable like earth?
Enjoy reading and learning about the new discovery of planets in our galaxy.



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