Kepler team has another excellent visualization of their discoveries.
An orrery of the currently known multi-planet systems, as a youtube animation.
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By Franck Marchis
There will be a before and after Kepler Era in astronomy. Today, with the release of 1,202 exoplanet candidates from data collected with the Kepler spacecraft over 140 days of observation, we have just entered in a new age of astronomy.
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and we're back, and I'm late, more Kepler stuff
hundreds of new multi-planet system (candidates) from Kepler!
Liveblogging:
v. good talk from Eric Ford - missed beginning
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Kepler released most of the first little bit of data today.
306 new candidate exoplanets, with 5 multiple transiting systems - ie stars with more than one planet transiting them.
The really interesting systems though are the 400 objects that the Kepler team got permission to withhold, and the data…
There are reports from Torino about HARPS observations of Gliese 581(g)
Vogt et al reported on additional possible planets in the multi-planet low mass Gliese 581(g) system.
In particular they showed a ~ 3 sigma detection of a possible 3+ earth mass planet in a circular orbit with an orbital…
So... The number of planets decreases down the page; diameter of planet is shown as diameter of dot, diameter rank # is shown as (red,yellow,green,cyan,blue)... can anyone use their super-vision to tell me whether there are five or six planets in the top-left system?
There are 6 planets in this system, all transiting. This is the amazing Kepler-11 system