As technology advances with the use of high-performance telescopes and satellite high-tech our point of view of planetary systems is changing. science editor for MSNBC describes these scientific discoveries. December 11, 2009 Spacecraft pick exoplanets galore, starting with those crazy scientists msnbc.com editor Alan Boyle Science www.msnbc.msn.com being discovered thousands of new planets, including potentially hundreds of worlds the size of the earth, in similar orbits around the EarthSun-like stars are expected to reach this target within three years or so. But starting with the strangest worlds. The probes more advanced planet-hunting - the European Space Agency and NASA's Kepler spacecraft COROT satellite - are to be closed into planets easier spot. That is, the first revelations about the planets in orbit is much smaller than Mercury. So if scientists expect Kepler's first official results are announced next month, hear about "hot Jupiters"and "Super-Earths" so whirling stars that they fry to close. He felt the strange phenomenon that scientists can believe their instruments. "I was not farsighted enough to see something that we want," says David Latham, a mission co-investigator of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told msnbc.com. "There are some good things." Kepler's principal investigator William Borucki at NASA's Ames Research Center, expects itsScience ...
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