Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / NewStats: 3,195,534 members, 7,958,641 topics. Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2024 at 07:28 PM |
Nairaland Forum / Science/Technology / Smallest Planet Discorvered (662 Views)
The World's Smallest Generator / What The Inside Of The Planet Mars Looks Like. / NASA Scientists Finds Message From God On Planet Mars (2) (3) (4)
(1) (Reply)
Smallest Planet Discorvered by sirfemoz(m): 8:17pm On Feb 21, 2013 |
NASA scientists have discovered the smallest planet yet found going around a star similar to our Sun. It is only one third the size of Earth, slightly larger than our Moon. Located 210 light years away in the constellation Lyra, this system has two more planets. The moon-size planet called Kepler-37b, and its two companion planets were found by scientists with NASA's Kepler mission, which is designed to find Earth-sized planets in or near the "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where liquid water might exist on the surface of an orbiting planet. However, while the star in Kepler-37 may be similar to our sun, the system appears quite unlike the solar system in which we live. |
(1) (Reply)
Nigeria Robots Driving In Africa Technology Hub! / Use Technology-customer Service Recruiting Ideas / Apple Unveils Ios7, Everything You Need To Know
(Go Up)
Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 7 |