UCLA finds 366 new potential exoplanets; outcounts NASA's discovery of 301 alien worlds

Outcounting NASA’s discovery of 301 exoplanets, astromers from University of Los Angeles, California (UCLA) have found a whopping 366 new potential alien worlds. According to a release by University, exoplanets were found using data from Kepler Telescope and an algorithm developed by a UCLA postdoctoral scholar. Interestingly, highlight of discovery is a planetary system comprising a star with two orbiting gas giant planets. Each of se planets is roughly size of Saturn and are located unusually close to one ar, as per findings which have w been published in Astromical Journal.  

discovery of se hundreds of exoplanets is being considered a significant vancement as number of outer worlds found to date is just over 4,500. Erik Petigura, co-author of research and a UCLA astromy professor said as per release-

Discovering hundreds of new exoplanets is a significant accomplishment by itself, but what sets this work apart is how it will illuminate features of exoplanet population as a whole.

Meanwhile, real credit for discovery of this new batch of exoplanets goes to le author Jon Zink, who used data from K2 mission of NASA's Kepler Telescope and coupled it with planet detection algorithm he developed. Petigura furr said, " catalog and planet detection algorithm that Jon and Scaling K2 team devised is a major breakthrough in understanding population of planets" ding that this will sharpen understanding of processes through which a planet forms and evolves.

Since identifying new planets is a challenge as many factors mimic planetary signatures, Zink's algorithm helped overcome this challenge by distinguishing between ise and real planets.  astromers reportedly analysed 500 terabytes of data comprised of 800 million ims of stars and cataloged 361 new planets. However, Zink said that more stars need to be studied in order to understand what of stars have exoplanets orbiting m and what factors determine planet formation. This discovery comes a day after NASA confirmed discovery of 301 new exoplanets.

NASA's discovery of 301 new exoplanets

NASA on vember 22 h confirmed existence of 301 new exoplanets, although ne were confirmed to be located in habitable zones around ir stars. NASA h also used data from Kepler Telescope's K2 mission along with machine learning methods to make discoveries. Tap here to re more.

Im: UCLA