Friday, September 16, 2011

New Planet

In what is believed to be the first confirmed alien world of its kind, the U.S. space agency has announced that NASA’s Kepler telescope has discovered a planet, which orbits around two suns.
The planet is named Kepler-16b, which is said to be an uninhabitable cold gas giant, similar to Saturn.
The new planet is 200 Light Years from Earth and its surface temperature ranges between -100 to -150 Fahrenheit (-73 to -101 Celsius).
“This discovery is stunning,” said co-author Alan Boss

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