{"id":93112,"date":"2020-03-12T07:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T07:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=93112"},"modified":"2020-03-12T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T07:25:13","slug":"17-new-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/17-new-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"17 New Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: KIC-7340288 b is the name given to which celestial body?<\/strong><br> (a) Star<br> (b) Jupiter like gaseous planet<br> (c) Rocky earth like planet<br> (d) Comet<br><strong> Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets including an earth like solid planet. The new finding, published in The Astronomical Journal<\/li><li>She achieved this feat by combing through data gathered by NASA&#8217;s Kepler mission.<\/li><li>Officially this planet has been named as KIC-7340288 b, 1.5 times bigger than Earth, this planet is potentially habitable. <\/li><li>This planet is 1000 light-years away from the Earth. It has a year that is 142.5 days long.<\/li><li>Over its original four-year mission, the Kepler satellite looked for planets, especially those that lie in the Habitable Zones of their stars.<\/li><li>Scientists believe if a planet lies in the habitable zone of a star then there is a greater possibility that liquid water could exist on a rocky planet&#8217;s surface.<\/li><li>Michelle Kunimoto is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of physics and astronomy.<\/li><li>There have only been 15 small, confirmed planets in the Habitable Zone found in Kepler data so far.<\/li><li>This planet is orbiting its star at 0.444 Astronomical Units (AU, the distance between Earth and our Sun) &#8211; just bigger than Mercury&#8217;s orbit in our Solar System. It gets about a third of the light Earth gets from the Sun.<\/li><li>Of the other 16 new planets discovered, the smallest is only two-thirds the size of Earth and other planets are up to eight times the size of Earth.<\/li><li>Kunimoto used the transit method to look for the planets among the roughly 200,000 stars observed by the Kepler mission.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Transit method:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Every time a planet passes in front of a star, the event known as transit.<\/li><li>At the time of transit a planet blocks a portion of that star&#8217;s light and causes a temporary decrease in the star&#8217;s brightness.<\/li><li>On finding these dips, known as transits, one can start to piece together information about the planet, such as its size and how long it takes to orbit.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/ubc-astronomy-student-finds-17-new-possible-planets-1-may-have-water-1.5481900\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/ubc-astronomy-student-finds-17-new-possible-planets-1-may-have-water-1.5481900<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/science\/17-new-planets-including-habitable-earth-sized-world-discovered-by-university-of-british-columbia-ub-2187518\">https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/science\/17-new-planets-including-habitable-earth-sized-world-discovered-by-university-of-british-columbia-ub-2187518<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: KIC-7340288 b is the name given to which celestial body? (a) Star (b) Jupiter like gaseous planet (c) Rocky earth like planet (d) Comet Answer: (c) Related facts: University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets including an earth like solid planet. 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