April 21, 2013

Comparison between the Kepler-62 system and our internal solar system (Image NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech)

Thanks to NASA’s Kepler space telescope it’s been discovered that the star Kepler-62, approximately 1,200 light-years from the Sun, has five planets and the star Kepler-69, approximately 2,700 light-years from the Sun, has two planets. The most interesting news is that two of Kepler-62 planets and one of Kepler-69 planets are probably of the rocky type and their orbit is within the habitable zone of those solar systems.