Monday, January 23, 2012

NASA Kepler: Discovers tiniest Solar System

Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the tiniest solar system found so far. 

The system consists of a single red dwarf star, known as KOI-961 and three planets which are 0.78, 0.73 and 0.57 times the radius of Earth. 

The planets are thought to be rocky - like Earth - but orbit much closer to their star making them too hot to be habitable.

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