{"id":105464,"date":"2020-04-16T04:24:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=105464"},"modified":"2020-04-16T04:24:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:24:37","slug":"earth-sized-habitable-planet-found-hidden-in-early-nasa-kepler-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/earth-sized-habitable-planet-found-hidden-in-early-nasa-kepler-data","title":{"rendered":"Earth-sized, habitable planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
An illustration of Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star. This newly discovered exoplanet is in its star\u2019s habitable zone and is the closest to Earth in size and temperature found yet in Kepler\u2019s data.
Credits: NASA\/Ames Research Center\/Daniel Rutter<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from National Aeronautics and Space Administration<\/a>\u2019s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet<\/a> orbiting in its star\u2019s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c, when looking through old observations from Kepler, which the agency retired in 2018. While previous searches with a computer algorithm misidentified it, researchers reviewing Kepler data took a second look at the signature and recognized it as a planet. Out of all the exoplanets found by Kepler, this distant world \u2013 located 300 light-years from Earth \u2013 is most similar to Earth in size and estimated temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A comparison of Earth and Kepler-1649c, an exoplanet only 1.06 times Earth\u2019s radius
Credits: NASA\/Ames Research Center\/Daniel Rutter<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n


This newly revealed world is only 1.06 times larger than our own planet. Also, the amount of starlight it receives from its host star is 75% of the amount of light Earth receives from our Sun \u2013 meaning the exoplanet\u2019s temperature may be similar to our planet\u2019s, as well. But unlike Earth, it orbits a red dwarf. Though none have been observed in this system, this type of star is known for stellar flare-ups that may make a planet\u2019s environment challenging for any potential life.<\/p>

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A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from National Aeronautics and Space Administration\u2019s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting in its star\u2019s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c, when looking through old observations from Kepler, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1545,8],"tags":[360,3669,734,2128],"class_list":["post-105464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space","tag-astronomy","tag-exoplanets","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105469,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105464\/revisions\/105469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}