Some of the 900+ miniature exoplanets hand-made by Canadian artist and diorama maker Adam Mararenko.
Each sphere is based on all available data concerning the distant worlds, however scant.
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The first in a series (three more are on the way) of vintage style posters for some recently discovered exoplanets created by NASA Jet Propulsion Lab visual strategists Joby Harris, David Delgado, and Dan Goods.
Related: Distant Earths
Last Wednesday. NASA scientists announced the discovery of 715 new exoplanets by the Kepler space observatory. To put that in context, the total number of exoplanets discovered prior to the new megafind was 1000.
Related: Distant Earths
(Pix (top to bottom): Kepler-22b, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Kepler-69c)
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, has already discovered more than 100 planets outside our solar system in the first four years of its mission, including, last year, a possible ‘ocean world’ called Kepler-22b.
Lately, its deep space telescope has identified three exoplanets of similar size to Earth which appear to have the right temperatures to sustain life. Two of them (Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f) orbit the Kepler-62 star 1200 light years from Earth with estimated surface temperatures of -3°C and -65°C respectively (though the chilliness may be tempered by the blanketing effect of as-yet-unknown atmospheres.)
The third planet, Kepler-69c, orbiting a different star, has a balmy estimated surface temperature of 27°C. Scientists also speculate that it could be covered with liquid, but not necessarily water.
We want to believe.
Three New Exoplanets Might Have Right Temperature for Life (Wired)