ScienceCasts - Sizing up an Exoplanet - HD

2014-08-20 4

Astronomers are not only discovering planets around distant suns, they are also starting to measure those worlds with astonishing precision. The diameter of a super-Earth named Kepler 93B is now known to within an accuracy of 148 miles.

Credit: NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/spitzer/kepler/precise-measurement-alien-world-20140723/

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