Comments on: Kepler finds exoplanets orbiting dwarf stars https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/kepler-finds-exoplanets-orbiting-dwarf-stars/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/kepler-finds-exoplanets-orbiting-dwarf-stars/#comment-941111 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:56:46 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=42363#comment-941111 Dr Kane’s website:
The Habitable Zone Gallery
http://www.hzgallery.org/index.html

He has tracking data on 2,869 planets in 2,174 star systems.
As of August, he estimates their are 93 planets with orbits entirely within the habitable zone.
He has plots, tables, and movies on every one of these.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/kepler-finds-exoplanets-orbiting-dwarf-stars/#comment-941103 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:14:43 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=42363#comment-941103 Nice companion video from the Silicon Valley Astronomy folks, from May 2016:

“Finding a New Earth: Exoplanets and the Habitable Zone”
Dr. Stephen Kane (San Francisco State University)
https://youtu.be/-QU9eCJO8mk
(1:22:43)

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