Astronomers have discovered eight similar to Planet Earth – Sight

Mission astronomical satellite Kepler, launched by NASA in 2009, at the beginning of this year found more than 4 thousand. Exoplanet, the existence of about 1 thousand. Of them officially confirmed astronomers.

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, held in Seattle, a group of Harvard-Smithsonian Center and other groups of scientists have confirmed that eight newly discovered rocky planets are possible Goldilocks planet, according to Russia Today.

Debra Fischer, an astronomer at the University of Yale, recalled in his report that only 20 years ago, the scientific world was unaware of the existence of these celestial bodies.

Absolute Twin Earth, however, has not been found. As close to Earth-size and orbit of the pair of planets that scientists have given the names Kepler 438b and Kepler 442b. They revolve around stars that are slightly smaller and cooler than our sun.

However, almost all of the thousands of planets – including those that have been recorded Kepler recently – are hundreds of light years from Earth, which, of course, hinders their detailed study.

To find habitable planets in close proximity to the Earth in 2017 is expected to launch research satellite TESS (Transiting Exopkanet Syrevy Satellite).

In the near future astronomers from around the world will present a number of projects that will help a detailed study of distant planets, as well as the discovery of new potentially habitable space bodies.

At the heart of several projects based on the principle of so-called stellar shade – this overlap of the interfering terrestrial telescopes of light that will help detect previously unseen from Earth celestial bodies.

In addition, a number of universities and observatories preparing a project to create a telescope with a diameter of 10 to 12 meters, which will study the composition of the atmosphere and surface of distant exoplanets.