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SpaceX made its eighth rocket launch this year, and successfully landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket. It carried NASA’s newest satellite, TESS: the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TESS will be looking for planets outside our solar system, hunting especially for Earth-like planets. Then the James Webb Space Telescope will take a closer look!
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Proxima b is the closest extra-solar planet to our solar system. It also orbits Proxima Centauri in the habitable, or “Goldilocks” zone, where the planet is just the right distance from its star to allow water to exist. Unfortunately, scientists studying the planet just measured a solar superflare that would have fried anything living on it!
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The Kepler Space Telescope is dedicated to finding new planets, and it’s turned up some interesting patterns. Looking at 909 planets orbiting 355 stars, researchers concluded that the planets in most solar systems are similar in size and have more evenly spaced orbits. Our planets don’t follow either pattern. We just do our own thing!
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The Kepler space telescope hunts for planets. It had located 7 planets orbiting the star Kepler 90, in the Draco constellation. Artificial intelligence went over the telescope data and found one more planet making 8, just like our solar system! Kepler 90i is also the third from its sun, but it’s an uninhabitable 400 degrees Celsius.
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