Post on 20-May-2020
Kepler Space Telescope Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars
Guy Davies
Credit: Carter Roberts
Kepler-2b or Hat-p-7
Planet bigger than Jupiter and close in.
Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f, and Earth
Credit: NASA/Ames
Age of the system: 11.5 Billion years old!
Credit: T. Campante
Credit: NASA/Ames/Daniel Huber
Kepler-56
Hat-p-11 or Kepler-3b:
Water vapour detected.
Neptune size planet.
Surface temperature ~605 deg C.
Credit: NASA/ JPL Caltech
Credit: Daniel Fabrycky
Average number of planets per star: ~5
Percentage of Sun-like stars with Earth-like planets: 22%