{"id":76038,"date":"2018-02-17T10:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T18:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/kepler-scientists-discover-almost-100-new-exoplanets"},"modified":"2018-02-22T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T23:05:50","slug":"kepler-scientists-discover-almost-100-new-exoplanets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/kepler-scientists-discover-almost-100-new-exoplanets","title":{"rendered":"Kepler scientists discover almost 100 new exoplanets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Based on data from NASA\u2019s K2 mission, an international team of scientists has confirmed nearly 100 new exoplanets. This brings the total number of new exoplanets found with the K2 mission up to almost 300.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started out analyzing 275 candidates, of which 149 were validated as real exoplanets. In turn, 95 of these planets have proved to be new discoveries,\u201d said U.S. doctoral student Andrew Mayo at the National Space Institute (DTU Space) at the Technical University of Denmark. \u201cThis research has been underway since the first K2 data release in 2014.\u201d Mayo is the main author of the work being presented in the Astronomical Journal<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The research was conducted partly as a senior project during his undergraduate studies at Harvard College. It also involved a team of international colleagues from institutions such as NASA, Caltech, UC Berkeley, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Tokyo. The Kepler spacecraft was launched in 2009 to hunt for exoplanets in a single patch of sky, but in 2013, a mechanical failure crippled the telescope. However, astronomers and engineers devised a way to repurpose and save the space telescope by changing its field of view periodically. This solution paved the way for the follow-up K2 mission<\/a>, which is still ongoing as the spacecraft searches for exoplanet transits.<\/p>\n

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Based on data from NASA\u2019s K2 mission, an international team of scientists has confirmed nearly 100 new exoplanets. This brings the total number of new exoplanets found with the K2 mission up to almost 300. \u201cWe started out analyzing 275 candidates, of which 149 were validated as real exoplanets. In turn, 95 of these planets [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76038","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76249,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76038\/revisions\/76249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}