4 may have conditions hospitable to life.
An international group of scientists found more than 100 extrasolar planets thanks to the images obtained by the space telescope Kepler, who took the footage of the night sky with multiple planetary systems, for us visually overlapping.
An international team of astronomers made an extraordinary discovery in the combination of K2 NASA missions, observatories, Maunakea in Hawaii, Chile, the Automated Planet Finder on the basis of the Observatory in California and the Observatory of the University of Arizona. Among the hundreds of newly discovered planets four potentially correspond to the parameters of the Earth. The study is published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement.
The Kepler telescope took pictures of a certain area of the sky in the Northern hemisphere, measuring the indications of the transiting planets that may be Earth-like. The new mission, dubbed K2, was an opportunity for observation of a number of independent target fields in the Ecliptic plane with greater opportunities for ground-based observatories in the Northern and southern hemispheres. K2 is now looking for planets among the cooler and smaller stars, which are more prevalent in our milky Way.
